Category: Bargaining
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Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: Thunder Bay
Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…
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Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: London
Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…
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Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: Windsor
Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…
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Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: Kingston
Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…
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OPS Unified: Meet your Regional Mobilizers!
Mike Greene ( Region 1 OPS Unified Mobilizer) Mike Greene is a Child and Youth Worker at the Child and Parent Resource Institute in London, which is a tertiary level children’s treatment facility. The Child and Parent Resource Institute provides specialized assessment, treatment and targeted interventions for children and youth with complex special needs and…
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Save Our Sites or Fill Your Morgues: Unions Release Joint Letter Urging Ford Government to Reverse Deadly Closures of Supervised Consumption Sites in Ontario
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – On Wednesday afternoon, provincial union leaders released a joint letter calling on Premier Ford and Minister Sylvia Jones to reverse course on the announced closures of supervised consumption sites (SCSs) across Ontario, as well as the prevention of any new SCS opening or existing services relocating. The shared appeal…
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Open Letter: Safe Consumption is a Labour Issue – Workers Call for the Reversal of Deadly SCS Closures in Ontario
This is a shared open letter – full list of signatories can be found below. We, the undersigned labour unions, representing hundreds of thousands of workers across Ontario, call on Premier Ford and Minister Jones to immediately reverse their deadly decision to force the closure of 10 supervised consumption services (SCS). We call on the…
Andy Pedersen
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Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: Ottawa
Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…
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Hospital Professionals Division: Meet your 2025 Bargaining Team
Meet your 2025 Bargaining Team Bargaining for our Hospital Professionals Division (HPD) Central contract will begin in 2025! The Hospital Professionals Division (HPD) in OPSEU/SEFPO represents approximately 30,000 hospital professionals in more than 100 bargaining units across the province. More than half of our bargaining units will be participating in the central bargaining process with…
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College Faculty bargaining update: Conciliation ends, concessions remain
Bargaining Bulletin 13 Highlights: Today, we concluded conciliation – our fourth and final date. The CEC has responded to our offer of settlement, tabled on October 28. Their response maintains all but one (1) of previously tabled concessions. The parties have agreed to non-binding mediation with William Kaplan from December 6-8. If the CEC is…
Andy Pedersen
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College Faculty bargaining update: Conciliation continues November 5
On Monday, October 28, we met with the Ministry-appointed conciliation officers for a third scheduled day of conciliation with the CEC. Previously, we met on October 8 and 15. Both sides have agreed to meet again on November 5 to continue with conciliation. Out of respect for those discussions, we are abiding by the requests for confidentiality…
Andy Pedersen
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Sector 10 – HPD Health Care Conference 2024: Better Care for Our Future, Dec 3, 2024
This is to advise you that Sector 10 – HPD is hosting a unique public policy focused conference titled Better Care for Our Future to envision and strengthen the public health care system in Ontario. The postwar era social contract – the commitment of the state to look after its citizens via public services –…
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LCBO Bargaining update: what we won (and fought back) with our strike!
Dear LCBO workers, Happy fall! We are all still processing our historic summer and all that we achieved together. Together, we built the supermajority of LCBO workers we needed to bring the province to a halt. And together, we won! Below you will find a summary of some of the key gains we won in…
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College Faculty bargaining update: Stop distracting, start bargaining – we’re ready to make progress
Bargaining Bulletin #12 On Friday, College Faculty voted to authorize strike action, if necessary, to reach a fair agreement. Through a historic turnout – 76.1% – 79% of voters delivered a strong mandate determined by a true majority of all members. During talks, it was OPSEU/SEFPO that initially raised the prospect of a limited pause on any…
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Riding a record turnout, College Faculty deliver historic strike mandate with overwhelming “yes” vote
TORONTO, ON – Faculty across Ontario’s 24 public colleges, represented by OPSEU/SEFPO, have delivered a historic strike mandate to their bargaining team, sending a strong message that workers will not tolerate the employer’s serious concessions taking precedence over a fair contract which invests in quality education. On Friday, October 18th, college faculty concluded a province-wide…
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Stronger together: College Faculty authorize strike mandate, if necessary, with 79% “yes” vote
Over the course of the last couple days, we made history together with the largest College Faculty strike mandate vote in a generation. The Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) has released the results: in a record turnout, 11,848 members (76.1%) voted, with 79% voting YES to authorize strike action, if necessary. We’ve delivered a strike mandate authorized by a clear majority of…
Andy Pedersen
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LockTalk #3: Bargaining Mobilizers
Click here to download PDF version Your Correctional Bargaining Team is pleased to announce the five Mobilizers selected for the 2024 round of bargaining. We extend a sincere thanks to all the applicants who expressed their interest in these positions. Casey Stewart is a Food Service Helper at the Toronto South Detention Centre for the…
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Ambulance Health and Safety Conference, Nov 12-13
The Sector 1 – Ambulance Health and Safety Conference has been scheduled. Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Hotel: Pan Pacific Toronto 900 York Mills Road, Toronto, Ontario M3B 3H2 +1 416 444 2511 Single rate: $184 +taxes (Premier) Meeting Room: 155…
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Sector 15 Children’s Treatment Bargaining Conference
Printable PDF The Sector 15 Children’s Treatment Bargaining Conference has been scheduled for Nov. 27-28. It is a hybrid event, taking place both online and at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto Hotel and Suites at 600 Highway 7 in Richmond Hill. The deadline to apply is Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. The purpose of the Coordinated Bargaining…