Category: Bargaining
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HPD Central Bargaining Team: Showing Our Strength – Bargaining Preparations, Rally Details & Town Hall Announcement
Preparing for the bargaining Table Your elected bargaining team begins negotiations with the OHA next week – May 26th to May 30th – with additional dates in June and July. We have been working diligently for several months to prepare, finishing with a full week of preparations May 5th-9th, 2025. During this final week, we…
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OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario community support workers demand piece of pie in Ontario budget
Join OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario members at MPP offices province-wide! Community support workers represented by OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario will be picketing MPP offices province-wide every day this week to demand more funding for the services we provide. We work in: developmental services child welfare community agencies youth justice universities children’s treatment centres hearing services…
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College Support Full-Time Divisional Update: Final Demand Set & Election Results
As we set out for one of the most important bargaining rounds our division has weathered, your College Support Full-Time Bargaining Team and Local delegates from across the province gathered in Toronto from May 3-4 to set key priorities for our shared fight. Delegates also elected their peers to key committees holding down the fight…
Andy Pedersen
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College Support Part-Time Town Hall
On May 1, after 14 months in bargaining, the union and the employer met for their first day of conciliation. Despite having filed for conciliation, the College Employer Council (CEC) chose to not engage in the process. After over 6 hours, and with a trained mediator present, the employer did not even respond with a proposal…
Andy Pedersen
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LockTalk # 11: Employer – Your Move
Printable version Update from the bargaining table Your bargaining team met with the Employer on May 6th and 7th with the expectation that the Parties would finish discussions on non-monetary issues and begin negotiating monetary proposals. Although we reached agreement on a number of non-monetary issues, the Employer was not prepared to begin monetary discussions.…
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HPD Bargaining Support Rally
Join OPSEU/SEFPO members alongside healthcare and community allies to rally in support of the Hospital Professionals Division as they begin bargaining! Rally Details Date: May 28 Time: 12pm-1pm Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel at 123 Queen Street West
Andy Pedersen
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Table Talk #15 – Our Time is Now! – OPSEU/SEFPO Convention 2025
This year, approximately 2,500 OPSEU/SEFPO members — including Delegates, Alternates, and Observers — attended Convention 2025! These 2,500 members came together for three and a half days to make connections with fellow members and discuss the many resolutions and constitutional amendments brought to the floor. As OPSEU/SEFPOs highest decision-making body, Convention attendees successfully adopted many…
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OPS Unified Update: Nurse Experience Credit Letter of Understanding
Following the Unified arbitration award issued by Arbitrator Gerry Lee in January of 2025 a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed by the Parties. This MOA includes: ● Guiding Principles for applying the experience credit ● Proration Guidelines for calculating credit values You can read the full MOA and supporting guidelines here: MOA and guidelines Implementation Timeline: The Employer…
Andy Pedersen
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Update Regarding COR Nurse Experience Credit Letter of Understanding
Following the Corrections Arbitration Award issued by Arbitrator Kaplan in December 2023 OPSEU/SEFPO has been working to get the Employer to implement the new Nurse Experience Credit Letter of Understanding (LOU). We are pleased to announce that on April 28, 2025 a Memorandum of Agreement was signed by the Parties, including Guiding Principles for applying…
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Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan – Union Trustee Vacancy
Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan – Union Trustee Vacancy The Pension Liaison Committee invites you or someone you know to get involved with the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan by applying to become a union trustee on the Board of Trustees. We require your assistance in helping us to find suitable candidates for one available…
Andy Pedersen
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For the 60,000 OPSEU/SEFPO members who can’t strike, a new fund to invest in strong and effective bargaining
By Wendy Lee, Local 575, inSolidarity Committee If you were at Convention 2025, you heard a lot of debate about OPSEU/SEFPO’s strike fund and strike pay, and whether it’s fair to the roughly 60,000 members – me included — who have been declared an “essential service” and therefore will never be on strike and never…
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College Part-Time Support Staff Bargaining Update: We win the contract we’re willing to fight for
Bargaining Bulletin #11 If this is your first time reading an update from your union, the Ontario Public Sector Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO), there’s a simple reason: your employer only released your contact information yesterday, and only after legal pressure, despite the fact that we’ve been bargaining your contract since January 2024. Part of bargaining in…
Andy Pedersen
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Mobilizer Description of Duties, OPSEU/SEFPO Central Bargaining Campaign
General Information The current HPD Central Agreement expires March 31, 2025. To build bargaining power in central bargaining 2025, HPD is booking off member leaders across Ontario to engage with members and support organizing efforts. Member leaders on book-off will work alongside a Steering Committee the HPD executive, Central Bargaining Team, and assigned staff that…
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Upcoming local meetings for new part-time and sessional faculty members
Algonquin College, Local 415 Meeting date, time, type: TBA Local president: Tracy Henderson, president@opseulocal415.org Boreal College, Local 673 Meeting date, time, type: TBA Local president: David Fasciano, david.fasciano@hotmail.com Cambrian College, Local 655 Meeting date: April 30, 2025, 2 – 4 pm Meeting type: Hybrid Local president: Neil Shyminsky, thewatchmaker@gmail.com Canadore College, Local 657 Meeting date:…
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College Part-Time Support Staff Bargaining Update: We’re back in bargaining Thursday, fighting for our futures on International Workers’ Day
Bargaining Bulletin #10: Thursday, May 1 is International Workers’ Day (May Day) – and it’s also the day we head back to the bargaining table for conciliation. Let’s rally together to drive home our key demands that uphold the dignity of our work: real wage increases, paid sick days, job security, equal pay for equal work,…
Andy Pedersen
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CAAT-S PT Local Presidents – Contact List
Algonquin College, Local 416 Local president: Christine Kelsey, twochris@gmail.com Boreal College, Local 672 Local president: Dan Brisson, danbrisson27@gmail.com Cambrian College, Local 656 Local president: Chad Ravary, local656@live.com Canadore College, Local 658 Local president: Brandon Davis, davilis@live.com Centennial College, Local 559 Local president: Clifford Mark, cmarkl559@gmail.com Conestoga College, Local 238 Local president: Vikki-Lee Poirier, vikki.poirier.1977@gmail.com Confederation…
Andy Pedersen
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Hospital Support Central Bargaining: Information for Members
Central Bargaining: Is it right for you? As OPSEU/SEFPO Hospital Support workers in workplaces across the province, we have the power to shape the terms and conditions of our employment. We are dealing with the same funder (Ministry of Health), and with similar employer agendas in our workplaces. With a united front, we will be…
Andy Pedersen
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LockTalk #10: Bargaining Resumes
Click here to download PDF version Update from the bargaining table During the writ period, your bargaining team continued working on proposals so that we would be in a position to resume bargaining once the government was back in place following the provincial election. Your bargaining team resumed negotiations with the employer on April 16,…
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