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The Osgoode Hall Faculty Association (OHFA) represents about 50 faculty members at Osgoode Hall Law School.

The Osgoode faculty decided, by a vote of 29 to 1, to certify OHFA as their formal representative and bargaining agent in 2012. Among the reasons for certification:

• benefits of an organized and resourced faculty association
• legal protection for members and their representatives and stronger safeguards of academic freedom
• access to arbitration in the event of disputes, such as over termination or discipline of a faculty member or over unilateral changes by the Osgoode or York administration to our terms of employment
• concerns about an apparent lack of support for core academic principles on the part of some senior administrators, particularly in the aftermath of the proposed CIGI-Osgoode funding arrangement (discussed here and here) in 2011-2012 and the conference on statehood and peace in Israel and Palestine (the subject of a CAUT academic freedom inquiry) in 2008-2009
• concerns about a decline in the role of faculty governance processes

We are a small faculty union administered by a three-person executive. We also have a three-person bargaining team in bargaining years. Members take on ad hoc roles as the need arises.

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