Category: Bargaining
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LCBO Members: Register for Bargaining Update meeting on March 20
After an incredibly powerful first week of bargaining, your LBED Bargaining Team wants the opportunity to share an update with all LBED members directly via Zoom! We’ll let you know what happened at the bargaining table on March 13-14, and report back on the very successful Day of Action we held in 11 cities across…
Andy Pedersen
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Doug Ford is lying to Ontario about LCBO privatization: JP Hornick
For Immediate Release March 14, 2024 TORONTO – After Premier Doug Ford’s misleading comments yesterday about his government’s ongoing privatization of the LCBO, OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick is standing with LCBO workers to set the record straight. “Tuesday’s LCBO Day of Action was organized by LCBO workers who are first-hand witnesses to the sell-off of…
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LCBO workers deliver message to Ford government MPPs: Stop the sell-off of the LCBO!
Toronto – LCBO employees represented by OPSEU/SEFPO rallied in 11 cities across Ontario this morning, unfurling giant banners at the constituency offices of Ford government MPPs and an Ontario government office with the signatures of almost 7,000 LCBO workers. The signatures were from petitions signed by the employees, demanding a stop to the sell-off of…
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LCBO Bargaining Update: Bill 124 Award, March 12 Day of Action, Next Contract
Liquor Board Employees Division (LBED) members across Ontario have a very busy week ahead! This past weekend, your LBED Bargaining Team achieved an arbitrated award for the past three years of unconstitutional wage restraints imposed by the now-repealed Bill 124. After months of organizing and participation, LCBO workers across the province are now ready to…
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Town Hall Lunch: Have your say about quality of care at Kingsmere Retirement Living in Alliston
Are you a resident, family member or staff at Aspira Kingsmere Retirement Living (owned by Sienna Senior Living) in Alliston, Ontario? Are you concerned about how the quality of care at Kingsmere is affected by staff shortages? Join us for a Town Hall meeting and roast beef lunch hosted by the Executive of OPSEU/SEFPO Local…
Andy Pedersen
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President Hornick calls on MCCSS to address staffing and funding crisis for Northern youth centres
With the staffing and funding crisis that continues in transfer-payment agency youth centres across the province, OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick has brought the plight of two Northern youth centres whose staff are represented by OPSEU/SEFPO to the attention of the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services. President Hornick urged MCCSS to increase the base…
Andy Pedersen
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OPSEU/SEFPO in the news round up: forest firefighters sound the alarm over the Ford government’s negligence
On Monday, February 26, OPSEU/SEFPO forest firefighter and Local 703 VP Noah Freedman and OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick spoke at a press conference at Queen’s Park calling for immediate government action to fix the health and safety crisis for Ontario’s forest firefighters before the imminent start of the 2024 wildfire season. They were joined by…
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“The arts matter, and so do we” – Art Gallery of Ontario workers rally as strike countdown begins
More than 400 workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) may be on strike as of 12:01 a.m. on Monday, March 25th. The AGO prides itself as a world-class arts institution tasked with public delivery of the arts, but that can’t come at the cost of peoples’ livelihood. The gallery is increasingly drawing on…
Andy Pedersen
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Public Sector is the key to reducing income inequality says Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) found that the public sector is the key to reducing income inequality in the workplace. First and foremost, discrimination is alive and thriving in Canada. Wage discrimination exists between men and women and between immigrants and Canadian-born workers. In the private sector however, women…
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Day of Action: LCBO workers are fighting back!
LCBO members of OPSEU/SEFPO have worked incredibly hard over the last few months building worker power and momentum for their upcoming round of bargaining, which starts on March 13. Nearly 7,000 LCBO workers have signed a petition to show they’re ready to stand up and stop the Ford government’s sell-off of the LCBO and keep…
Andy Pedersen
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LockTalk #25 – Implementation Update for Arbitration Award
This issue of LockTalk contains additional updates regarding the implementation of the arbitration award for the Correctional Bargaining Unit. Wages We can confirm the following timeline for implementation of the new wage grids as provided by the Employer: Pay date: March 14, 2024 Revision to salary rates including: January 1, 2022, 2023 and 2024 across…
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Municipally Speaking: Winter 2024 Newsletter for Sector 13 – Municipalities
Winter 2024 Newsletter New Divisional Executive elected at 30th Biennial BPS Conference Every two years, OPSEU/SEFPO holds a Broader Public Service (BPS) Conference, where delegates from every BPS sector elect their Divisional Executives (Divex). At the BPS Conference this past November, Municipalities Sector 13 delegates elected the following members to the Divex for a two…
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PHO Bargaining Bulletin: Wage Re-Opener Arbitration Award
We have received our Bill 124 Wage Re-Opener Arbitration Award from Arbitrator Kaplan today, February 27, 2024. In this process, your Bargaining Team was seeking wage improvements, pandemic pay, improvements to benefits and classification adjustments. We are pleased to share the details of the award with all of you. Wages increases (with retro): The Employer…
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Forest firefighters call out Ford government’s disregard for their health and safety
Queen’s Park, Toronto – Veteran forest firefighter Noah Freedman and OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick joined with NDP MPPs Lise Vaugeois, Guy Bourgouin, and Sol Mamakwa at Queen’s Park today to call out the Ford government for their complete disregard for forest firefighters’ health and safety and to demand action before the imminent start of the…
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2024 OPS Unified Central Bargaining Conference Election Results
We’re excited to share the results of the second part of the Bargaining Team election that took place Saturday, February 24, 2024 at the OPS (Ontario Public Service) Unified Central Bargaining Conference. This was a two-part process. The elections for the Regional Bargaining Team took place on February 10, 2024. Electing the Bargaining Team marks…
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Prioritize public health: keep our community PHO Labs open!
In December 2023, Ontario’s Auditor General made a recommendation to close six out of 11 Public Health Ontario (PHO) laboratory sites. OPSEU/SEFPO immediately sounded the alarm that these closures would endanger rural families and communities. The mission of Public Health Ontario is to “enable informed decisions and get actions that protect and promote health and…
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Victorian Order of Nurses Pension Plan Update
This is a joint communication to members from the following six unions: the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU); the Nova Scotia Nurses Union (NSNU), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union/Syndicat des employés de la fonction publique de l’Ontario (OPSEU/SEFPO), SEIU Healthcare and the Ontario Nurses…
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Corrections Cares About Communities 2024: Events across Ontario
OPSEU/SEFPO correctional workers across Ontario will be organizing fundraising events for local charities during the 7th annual Corrections Cares About Communities Week, from February 22-29, 2024. Every day at work, correctional workers keep their communities safe. By working with their neighbours to raise funds for local charities, they also help the people in their communities…
Andy Pedersen
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For-profit plasma could spell disaster for Canada’s blood supply
For Immediate Release February 20, 2024 TORONTO – OPSEU/SEFPO condemns the announcement by Canadian Blood Services that for-profit multinational pharmaceutical company Grifols will open paid plasma collection sites in Whitby, Cambridge, Hamilton in late 2024 and 2025. Grifols will be operating under an undisclosed 15-year deal with Canadian Blood Services to privatize plasma collection in…
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LCBO members: RSVP for the organizing committee meetings next week!
This is it – we’ve hit 60% and we’re ready to bargain! Because of the incredible work you and your fellow leaders have done in recent months, more than 60% of LCBO workers have now signed our petition to show they’re behind us and ready to bargain. It’s time to make some noise! We’re getting…