Category: Bargaining
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What is a Cost-of-Living Allowance (COLA)?
A cost-of-living allowance (COLA) is an additional payment to an employee’s salary or compensation over and above their wage grid to counteract the effects of rising prices for goods and services, ensuring their purchasing power is maintained. Essentially, it’s a way to adjust income to keep up with the increasing cost of living during periods of…
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LockTalk #13: They Just Don’t Get It
Click here for a PDF version of LockTalk #13. While the Employer may be listening, they’re not hearing our message. They are oblivious to the environment inside our institutions and offices. During our last bargaining dates in May, we provided the Employer with a wealth of information outlining the critical issues impacting Correctional workplaces across…
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College Support Full-Time (CAAT-S FT) Bargaining Hub
Legend for proposal numbers: U# = union proposal M# = management proposal 2025 Bargaining Proposals and Responses Date Union Employer June 17-19, 2025 Monetary & Non-Monetary, U1 – EN Non-Monetary Proposals, M01 – EN July 7-9, 2025 Union’s Response, U2 – EN Employers’ Response to Non-Monetary Proposals – EN July 22-24, 2025 U3 –…
Andy Pedersen
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College Support Full-Time Bargaining Update #3: Going backwards is not an option.
Your bargaining team headed to the table this week, meeting with the employer from June 17-19. As we close out our first stretch of bargaining dates, the union has tabled all our proposals – monetary and non-monetary. The employer also tabled their own opening passes this week – and this round is unlike anything we’ve…
Andy Pedersen
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BloodLines Bargaining Bulletin: June 2025
We are writing to provide an important update regarding the status of bargaining. As previously shared, your bargaining team decided to request a “no-board” report after the March 26, 2025, conciliation session as the employer’s position failed to adequately address the priorities and concerns identified by the membership. We are now moving forward to the…
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College Faculty Full-Time and Partial Load Bargaining Update: If there was ever a time to come together, it’s now.
Bargaining Bulletin 22 Six months since we first secured dates for mediation-arbitration with the mutually agreed upon Arbitrator William Kaplan, both union and employer met from June 14-16, 2025 to settle the terms of our new collective agreement. Mediation proved unsuccessful once talks between the parties broke down, moving us into arbitration. The terms of…
Andy Pedersen
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College Support Full-Time Bargaining Update #2: Bargaining begins – wear BLUE this Wednesday June 18 to support your team!
Today, we head back to the table for our first bargaining dates with the employer. Our proposals come directly out of what we’ve heard from you, and thousands of other members, about the changes we need to see in our workplace and our contract to meet the current moment. To make those changes reality, our…
Andy Pedersen
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Part-Time & Sessional Faculty Bargaining Update #1: Kick-off for a First Contract
Bargaining Bulletin #1 We’ve made history: on Thursday, June 12th, 2025, your union, OPSEU/SEFPO, delivered our employer the very first Notice to Bargain on behalf of part-time and sessional college faculty across Ontario. This takes an exciting step towards your first collective agreement – a central contract that will collectively bargain things like wages, working…
Andy Pedersen
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Table Talk #16 – This is Our Unified Era
WHO: The bargaining team would like to invite Unified members to Table Talk Thursdays. WHAT IS TABLE TALK THURSDAYS: Table Talk Thursdays are Zoom sessions where YOUR bargaining team shares updates and insights with union members about ongoing negotiations and activities. Join us to stay informed and engaged with the latest news and developments. WHERE:…
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As Ontario burns, Ford Government offers forest fire pilots the second-lowest wages in Canada
As wildfires across Ontario grow more intense and frequent, the demand for workers in Aviation and Forest Fire and Emergency Services has never been higher, yet wages are falling further and further behind. Pilots represented by OPSEU/SEFPO have resoundingly rejected an offer that would have made Ontario second to last in terms of wages for…
Andy Pedersen
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Bargaining Begins: Making Our Priorities Known
Bargaining Begins: Making Our Priorities Known Last week, your HPD central bargaining team met with the Ontario Hospitals Association (OHA) to begin negotiations on the issues that matter most to hospitals professionals across Ontario. Both sides tabled their first set of proposals, and one thing was made very clear – our approaches to finding solutions…
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OPSEU/SEFPO BPS Conference and Divisionals 2025
Save the Date November 14-16, 2025 Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel 123 Queen Street West, Toronto The BPS Conference planning committee, in consultation with All Chairs, is putting together an action-packed program focused on empowering workers to fight together. Our strength lies in our unity; in our determination to fight for a better future. When we…
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Save the date: 2025 OPSEU/SEFPO BPS Conference and Divisionals
Save the Date November 14-16, 2025 Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel 123 Queen Street West, Toronto The BPS Conference planning committee, in consultation with All Chairs, is putting together an action-packed program focused on empowering workers to fight together. Our strength lies in our unity; in our determination to fight for a better future. When we…
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College Full-Time Support Staff Bargaining Update #1: Wear BLUE for bargaining kick off – Monday, June 2!
On Monday, your bargaining team gives our employer Notice to Bargain, kicking off one of the most important bargaining rounds in our Division’s history. Thousands of surveyed members identified core issues for this bargaining round – including better wages and stronger job security – that will shape the proposals that hit the table. Our first…
Andy Pedersen
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Francophone community comes together against program cuts at Collège La Cité: “Our futures will not be sidelined without a fight.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON – Union leaders, faculty, students, and allied organizations are sounding the alarm on Francophone futures put in peril by program cuts at Collège La Cité. Advocates say that college management has made unilateral decisions that are out of step with community and industry needs and will carry generational consequences for…
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OPSEU/SEFPO Hospital Professionals in bargaining rally to sound the alarm on the recruitment and retention crisis in Ontario Hospitals!
Hospital Professionals kicked off their first week of central bargaining with a powerful solidarity rally on Wednesday, May 28th. Joined by fellow OPSEU/SEFPO members and leaders, labour and community allies, they called for real solutions to the recruitment and retention crisis in Ontario hospitals. Toronto, Cambridge, Thunder Bay and Peterborough, workers came together to send…
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College Part-Time Support Staff Bargaining Update: We’re worth more than zero.
Bargaining Bulletin #12 Earlier this week, our employer gave notice of their requested “no board” report to all part-time college support staff. During contract negotiations, this means that effective from the date that report is issued by the Ministry of Labour, a 16-day countdown begins until the employer can lock us out of our work,…
Andy Pedersen
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LockTalk #12: Monetary Talks Underway
Click here to download a printable PDF. Update from the bargaining table Your Bargaining Team met with the Employer on May 22, 2025 — our first monetary discussion since submitting our fulsome proposal in December 2024. The Employer’s position did not fully address our proposals, resulting in mixed progress. They offered a handful of meager…
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OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario community workers picket PC MPP offices for a ‘piece of the pie’ in Ontario’s budget
As PC MPPs returned to their constituency offices this week, they were met with daily pickets by community support workers with a clear message: No more funding crumbs; we need a piece of the pie! Hundreds of OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario members took their funding demands to 23 province-wide locations to protest years of underfunding,…