Category: Bargaining
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Raise the Minimum Wage: Join the September 14 2013 Day of Action
September 10, 2013 Participate in creative actions in your community for a $14/hour minimum wage. The province-wide campaign to raise the minimum wage will target corporations like Toys "R" Us that are lobbying against an increase. Low-wage jobs are increasingly the only work many people can get. The minimum wage has been frozen at $10.25…
Andy Pedersen
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Liquor Board Employees Divisional Committees
LBED Divisional Executive The Liquor Board Employees Division’s Executive Committee includes three executive officers – the Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary-Treasurer – plus the chairs of three divisional standing committees – Education & Communications, Health & Safety, and Benefits & Pensions. Denise Davis Chair Local 378 Jeremy Trainor Vice Chair Local 378 Coleen Macleod Secretary-Treasurer Local…
Andy Pedersen
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Challenging Austerity: Resources for OPSEU Members
Working people didn’t cause the Great Recession of 2008-09, but we’ve been paying for it from the start. First the high-rolling financiers whose risky bets torpedoed the private sector had to be bailed out by governments. Now those same financiers are demanding deep cuts to public services, jobs, and wages to pay for the bailouts…
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Put Kids First: Children’s Aid Societies
Download this document What is a Provincial Discussion Table (PDT)? A voluntary process: Participation is not legislated as in the Health Care sector. The PDT process has all the advantages of a central bargaining process while maintaining local control. This same model is used in the Education sector. A framework agreement that addresses central/systemic…
Andy Pedersen
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CAAT-A Negotiations 2012 Social Media
Social Media Join the Facebook page Follow College Faculty on Twitter @CAATA2012 Documents for download Detailed Union Proposal Union Proposal Summary
Andy Pedersen
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New report released on Ontario Public Schools
Boards of Education New report released on Ontario public schools June 8, 2011 A major report has been released by People for Education regarding publicly funded schools in Ontario. Every year for the past 15 years, Ontario principals and parents have filled out annual public school surveys. Their work is the basis of this report. This year"s Annual…
Andy Pedersen
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Bargaining 2013 Questions and Answers about the LBED Ratification Vote
Q. When does the vote take place? Voting takes place June 3-4, 2013. Q. How will the vote be conducted? The vote is conducted by secret ballot. Q. What will be the wording on the ballot? YES I accept the contract offer. NO I reject the contract offer. Q. Who can vote? All employees in…
Andy Pedersen
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Youth Employment Services 2010 Bargaining
Youth Employment Services (YES) is a non-profit agency providing hope to youth seeking work. We have been in bargaining since Dec. 2009. Youth Employment Services workers hold information picket July 27, 2010 – Employment support workers at Youth Employment Services, OPSEU Local 512, will hold an information picket on July 27 at 12:00 pm at…
Andy Pedersen
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Justice: Elizabeth Fry Toronto – send an email
Stand up for women at Elizabeth Fry Toronto Text version Send email To: mcoombs@efrytoronto.org Cc: opseucommunicationsdepartment@opseu.org Bcc: bking@opseu.org Subject: Please treat workers at Elizabeth Fry Toronto with respect during conciliation Cut and paste the following message: Dear Michelle Coombs, Elizabeth Fry Toronto is an organization committed to justice. As the Executive Director, I am asking…
Andy Pedersen
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Systemic Change
Expression of Interest: OPSEU Systemic Change Steering Committee May 6, 2013 The OPSEU members of the Systemic Change Steering Committee are accepting Expressions of Interest for two vacant union positions on the Systemic Change Steering Committee. One position will be filled by an OPSEU Community Corrections Member and one by an OPSEU Institutional Correctional Member.…
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Saturday Sept 27 Mass Rally
Thousands rallied for public health care Sept 27 in the wake of cuts to dozens of Ontario hospitals. September 29, 2008 Despite poor weather that affected most of southern Ontario, protesters took to the streets of Toronto, Windsor, Kingston, Sudbury and Thunder Bay to speak out against hospital cuts, destructive home care policies, the lack…
Andy Pedersen
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Save Our Jails!!! Good Jobs Build a Strong Community
Save Our Jails rally in Sarnia July 21, 2011 – OPSEU executive members join local activists at a recent Save Our Jails rally outside the Sarnia correctional facility. Save Our Jails campaign pickets Liberal nomination meeting May 27 2011 – Bellmore – Correctional officers from Owen Sound and Walkerton demonstrated outside of MPP Carol Mitchell’s…
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Questions and Answers for OPSEU court reporters
The Ministry of the Attorney General’s (MAG) plan to contract out court transcripts shows a complete lack of respect for the integrity of the record and the profession of court reporting. Separating the taking of the record from the producing of the record could increase the risk of inaccuracies appearing in the transcript. Your union…
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OPSEU Universities Sector Executive
The OPSEU Universities Executive Committee: Kella Loschiavo, Member at Large; Angela Jacques, Chair; Dave Vadnais, Secretary; Wesley Killman, Treasurer Meet the 2013-2015 OPSEU Universities Executive Committee Angela Jacques, Chair, Local 144 – Compass Group of Canada (Huron College) Wesley Killman, Treasurer, Local 519 – University of Toronto Dave Vadnais, Secretary, Local 608 – Nipissing University Kella Loschiavo,…
Andy Pedersen
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Hospital Professionals Division
Who we are / What we do The Hospital Professionals Division (HPD) was created by a merger of the former Medical Division and hospital based units of the Association of Allied Health Professionals: Ontario. The Division includes Locals or Units whose members are employed by public hospitals, predominantly as regulated paramedical professional and paramedical professional employees.…
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Case Notes:Funding Crisis in Child Treatment and CAS
November 17, 2009 The provincial government’s refusal to sufficiently fund children’s aid and children’s mental health services has created a crisis and at-risk children and youth are paying the price. The risk is escalating. The lack of early intervention causes problems to escalate within the family and their impacts to be felt beyond into the…
Andy Pedersen
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PDT Bulletins Update #7: Employers and unions reach landmark tentative provincial consensus agreement
For the last few months CAS employers, and the bargaining agents for unionized CAS staff – CUPE, OPSEU, CEP, the Simcoe CAS ea – and government representatives have been engaged in a provincial discussion table process (PDT) in an effort to: explore the areas of systemic mutual interest increase labour stability in the child…
Andy Pedersen
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March of Dimes: Workers ready for OPSEU’s first e-picket
The locked-out workers from Local 262 March of Dimes in Oakville may be a small unit of women, but they are gigantic in their efforts to get a decent contract. They are now reaching out in OPSEU’s first electronic picket. The e-picket is the newest campaign strategy for this enthusiastic group. Some workers will dedicate…
Andy Pedersen
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CAAT-A Negotiations 2012 Bargaining Update – April 5, 2012
Quality education tops agenda at demand-setting meeting The first step in collective bargaining is the setting of demands by members at each college. All of those demands are then sent to the provincial demand setting meeting. On March 31 and April 1, delegates from every college met in Toronto to establish the bargaining demands and…
Andy Pedersen