Category: Bargaining
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Fact check: LCBO’s last offer to workers would make our working conditions worse and pave the road to privatization
After months of not engaging meaningfully in bargaining with LCBO workers, LCBO management brought a proposal to the table just before our strike deadline that was filled with attacks on our working conditions, wages that don’t come close to meeting inflation, and attempts to remove barriers to privatization in our contract. You told us that…
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Over 320 Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa workers are on strike – join their picket line!
Endless burnout, chronic deficits, ever-shrinking resources: conditions at Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa are at a breaking point. Over 320 CAS Ottawa workers, members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 454, are on strike as a last resort for change. These workers are standing up for children & families while fighting for a fair future and against mass…
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LCBO strike leading news coverage across the province
During the first weekend of our historic, first LCBO workers’ strike, the power of OPSEU/SEFPO members and their allies in the community and broader labour movement has attracted massive media coverage across the province. In many stories, we hear directly from frontline LCBO workers who are determined to fight for the future of the LCBO,…
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Your local can donate to the striking LCBO workers
Locals can make a donation in solidarity with any OPSEU/SEFPO local/unit that is on strike by using their rebates. Local Trustee Audited Reports (TARS) must be up to date Two LEC officers (e.g. Local President, Treasurer, Secretary-Treasurer, Vice-President, or Chief Steward) must authorize that the funds are to be deducted from the Local’s quarterly rebate. [wpforms id=”237455″ title=”false”]
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Your local can donate to the striking workers in Local 454 – Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa
Locals can make a donation in solidarity with any OPSEU/SEFPO local/unit that is on strike by using their rebates. Local Trustee Audited Reports (TARS) must be up to date Two LEC officers (e.g. Local President, Treasurer, Secretary-Treasurer, Vice-President, or Chief Steward) must authorize that the funds are to be deducted from the Local’s quarterly rebate. [wpforms id=”237351″ title=”false”]
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Photos and video from the LCBO workers’ picket lines across the province
Brantford Stoney Creek Toronto Beaverton Brantford Durham Barrie Sudbury Kitchener St Thomas Ottawa Barrie Toronto Toronto St Catherines Toronto Sauble Beach Whitby Ottawa Welland Welland Toronto Haliburton St Catherines St Catherines Ottawa Sauble Beach St. Thomas Ottawa Sudbury London Niagara on the Lake London Toronto Ottawa Durham Ottawa London Durham Toronto Brantford Ottawa Timmins Scarborough…
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Support striking LCBO workers – find a picket location near you!
As of 12:01AM Friday, July 5th, more than 9000 LCBO workers will be out on an historic strike. This fight isn’t just about one workplace or one employer. This is a fight for our entire province and every public good we enjoy, be it health care, education, or infrastructure. Every year, the LCBO generates $2.5 billion…
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Ford’s dry summer begins: LCBO workers start historic strike
Toronto (CNW) – July 4, 2024 / More than 9,000 LCBO workers will be out on strike as of 12:01 midnight tonight after talks broke down at the bargaining table. OPSEU/SEFPO, the union representing the workers, has said all along that this round of bargaining is like no other. “Doug Ford wants to make…
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Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa Workers Start Clock on Strike Countdown
OPSEU/SEFPO locals – click here to donate to Local 454 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 4, 2024 OTTAWA — Unsustainable work conditions, shrinking resources, and empty promises of better times to come: the story coming from child protection workers in the Ottawa region is stamped with urgency. Now, after nine months of bargaining, over 320 Children’s…
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LCBO flyer: Say no to billionaire profits!
If Doug Ford and the LCBO forces LCBO workers into a strike on July 5th to fight for the future of the LCBO, we will be handing these flyers out on the picket lines! Say no to billionaire profits. Join the fight for the future of the LCBO! Doug Ford wants to make life better…
Andy Pedersen
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LCBO flyer and picket-sign order form
If you need to get some picket signs or leaflets, you can place your order here — we’ll deliver to your OPSEU/SEFPO regional office, or to your home address: [wpforms id=”236549″ title=”false”]
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Petition action: Urgent mental health supports for correctional workers
Content warning: This post contains mention of suicide. OPSEU/SEFPO correctional workers are facing a mental health crisis. Since October 2021, at least nine of our correctional bargaining unit members have lost their lives to suicide. These deaths are tragic – and can be prevented if our members have access to more robust mental health supports.…
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The Colleges Work Because We Do – Notice to Bargain
Bargaining Bulletin 2 Highlights: Notice to Bargain was served on July 2 by your College Faculty bargaining team to the College Employer Council (CEC) Our first upcoming bargaining dates are on July 15-16, 2024. Training Ontario’s Future: This bargaining round’s theme speaks to our daily work in preparing the future of our communities and our province.…
Andy Pedersen
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LCBO plans for province-wide store closures instead of fair bargaining with frontline workers
This week, the LCBO released their strike preparedness plan, with details that further reinforce our view that they are not actually planning to negotiate a deal. They’ve announced that if workers strike, all stores across the province will be closed for two weeks. Despite the employer’s consistent unwillingness to bargain meaningfully, this plan is a…
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Huge groundswell of public support for Ontario Science Centre: Media roundup
Immediately following the surprise closure of the Ontario Science Centre to the public last Friday, there has been an outpouring of public support to re-open the building immediately, fix the roof, and keep the Science Centre in its current location for good. On June 21, when the rushed closure was announced and carried out, OPSEU/SEFPO…
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Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa Workers Call on Province to Put Kids First
Workers in the Ottawa region are sounding the alarm on the crisis in children’s aid and calling for urgent interministerial action on funding for Children’s Aid Societies. In the last year alone, a record number of children in care have slipped through the cracks created by resource pressures flowing from chronic financial deficits, soaring inflation,…
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Letter to Fleming College President and Board of Governors Chair: College leaders are accountable to the students, employers and communities they serve
OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick and the Presidents of OPSEU/SEFPO Locals 352 & 351, Liz Mathewson and Marcia Steeves, sent the following letter yesterday to Fleming College President, Maureen Adamson, and Fleming Board of Governors Chair, Don Gillespie, expressing deep concerns with procedural transparency surrounding the unprecedented suspension of 29 programs at Fleming College in April.…
Andy Pedersen
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Ontario Science Centre layoffs imminent due to unnecessary closure to the public
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2024 TORONTO – OPSEU/SEFPO has been informed that more than 50 food services workers at the Ontario Science Centre will receive indefinite layoff notices in the next few days in the wake of the unnecessary closure of the Ontario Science Centre to the public. “Four days after the Ford government…
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Ford government neglect allows Ontario Science Centre to crumble
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2024 TORONTO – The Ford government’s closure of the Ontario Science Centre to the public today after years of underfunding, deferred maintenance and neglect was completely avoidable. “This is part of an ongoing pattern with Doug Ford,” said OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick. “Because of his government’s lack of care and…