Category: Bargaining
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Health care workers at MyHealth Centre to rally for pension benefits and fair wages
SUDBURY, ON, January 29, 2024 – Workers at Sudbury’s MyHealth Centre provide diagnostic imaging services, including nuclear medicine, biopsy, ultrasound, mammography, and bone mineral density and X-ray services. The clinic is the only unionized clinic out of 48 MyHealth locations in Ontario. Right now, workers at the clinic, members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 668, are bargaining…
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OPSEU/SEFPO in the news: Local 703 VP Noah Freedman talks about the long-term consequences of fighting forest fires and the lack of protection from the government
Forest fire worker, OPSEU/SEFPO Local 703 Vice-President Noah Freedman, spoke to CBC about some of the long-term health consequences forest fire workers face as a result of the work they do. Like urban firefighters, forest fire workers are at a higher risk of cancer than other workers. But unlike urban firefighters, forest fire workers don’t…
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Solidarity works! Tentative deal reached for Peel Region EAs and DECEs
After months of bargaining, a 98% strike vote, and overwhelming numbers of emails from parents, OPSEU/SEFPO members and the community sent to Peel District School Board trustees and senior administrators on their January 24 mediation date, Educational Assistants (EAs) and Designated Early Childhood Educators (DECEs) represented by OPSEU/SEFPO Local 2100 have reached a tentative agreement…
Andy Pedersen
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Staffing and funding crisis at youth centres in Southwestern Ontario: President Hornick to MCCSS
OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick is urging the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) to address the staffing and funding crisis at four youth centres in western Ontario with increased base funding, to ensure that youth in secure and open custody facilities have the services and programs they are entitled to by law. The…
Andy Pedersen
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News Release: Over 30,000 OPS Unified Members Win Largest Wage Increases since 2012!
Toronto, January 22, 2024 – This past weekend, the Ontario Public Service (OPS) Unified Bargaining Team met with the employer and Arbitrator Gerry Lee as part of ongoing Wage Reopener negotiations – a process that was triggered when the Ford government’s Bill 124 was deemed unconstitutional. As a result of successful mediation and arbitration, Arbitrator…
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Have Your Say: Bargaining Survey 2024
Employment Security Full-time faculty work has been eroding due to several college practices. Academic work is unbundled and assigned to support staff and administrators; academic work is being assigned through OntarioLearn to non-unionized “facilitators” and through Private Career Colleges to non-unionized professors; non-full-time faculty are receiving multiple stacked contracts instead of access to full-time positions;…
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OPS Unified Members Win Big at Wage Reopener Table!
We’re delighted to inform you of the successful mediation and arbitration between your OPS Unified Bargaining Team and the employer this past weekend! The Award issued by Arbitrator Gerry Lee includes the largest increases (9.5% across the board spread over three years) that OPS Unified has seen since 2012. “This is a direct result of…
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Virtual Phone Bank: All hands on deck for LCBO workers!
LCBO workers are in a fight against Ford’s reckless privatization plan – one that affects each and every one of us. This isn’t just about wages, it’s about the future of work in our province and keeping public services public – and LCBO members need our help. In the lead-up to bargaining, LCBO mobilizers have been working…
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Region 5: All hands on deck for LCBO workers!
LCBO workers are in a fight against Ford’s reckless privatization plan – one that affects each and every one of us. This isn’t just about wages, it’s about the future of work in our province and keeping public services public – and LCBO members need our help. In the lead-up to bargaining, LCBO mobilizers have been working…
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Region 3: All hands on deck for LCBO workers!
LCBO workers are in a fight against Ford’s reckless privatization plan – one that affects each and every one of us. This isn’t just about wages, it’s about the future of work in our province and keeping public services public – and LCBO members need our help. In the lead-up to bargaining, LCBO mobilizers have been working…
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All hands on deck for LCBO workers!
LCBO workers are in a fight against Ford’s reckless privatization plan – one that affects each and every one of us. This isn’t just about wages, it’s about the future of work in our province and keeping public services public – and LCBO members need our help. In the lead-up to bargaining, LCBO mobilizers have been working…
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College Support Part-Time – Bargaining update
Your Team is getting ready to bargain! We are pleased to inform you that we have secured bargaining dates with the College Employer Council (CEC). We will begin negotiations January 29th – February 2nd. We encourage all CAAT-S members to wear blue that week in solidarity to show our collective strength to the employer. We’ll…
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We’re ready to make this the year of the worker in Ontario. Are you in?
At OPSEU/SEFPO we’re ready to meet the moment. We’re ready to make this the year of the worker in Ontario. Right now, workers have more bargaining power than we have in decades. It’s time to balance the scales and fight for the wages and working conditions we deserve. And we’ll do that by organizing and…
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OPS Unified Wage Reopener Update: Mediation January 20-21, 2024
This is an update from your OPS (Ontario Public Service) Unified Bargaining Team regarding our negotiations with the employer on the wage reopener clause in our current collective agreement. The bargaining team and the employer have agreed to meet with the mediator, Gerry Lee, on January 20-21, 2024 on the wage reopener. At the conclusion…
Andy Pedersen
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United and ready to win: LCBO workers deliver notice to bargain
On January 10, 2024 the LBED Bargaining Team, joined by OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick, went to LCBO headquarters to deliver notice to bargain to LCBO President and CEO George Soleas. Mr. Soleas declined to take 5 minutes to meet with the team. That’s ok – we’ll be back. By sending his Labour Relations Director in…
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More funding for colleges and universities must improve the student experience
It’s no secret that colleges and universities urgently need more funding. As the union representing 45,000 staff and faculty in all 24 of Ontario’s colleges and 16 universities and other postsecondary institutions, we have been sounding the alarm for years. Our members have been living and working with the consequences of three decades of defunding…
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Public Health Ontario cuts would endanger rural families: OPSEU/SEFPO
Toronto – Recent recommendations from the Auditor General to close six out of 11 Public Health Ontario (PHO) laboratory sites would endanger rural families and communities, says OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick, who is calling for solutions that build health care capacity. “Closing Public Health Ontario lab sites would threaten the health infrastructure and resilience of…
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College Support Full-Time Bargaining Update: new Collective Agreement finalized!
We’ve got great news! The Collective Agreement for full-time college support staff has been finalized. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished – and the collective effort of a strong and united membership that got us here. You engaged in province-wide solidarity actions, wrote letters to college presidents and posted to social media wearing blue in…
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Important updates on Bill-135, wage reopener negotiations and your next round of bargaining
I wanted to reach out to provide an update on your current and upcoming bargaining negotiations and the future of Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSSs). On behalf of all of OPSEU/SEFPO, I also want to extend our solidarity and support for you in the months ahead. On Dec. 4, Bill 135, the Convenient…
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2024 OPS Unified Regional Bargaining Conferences, Saturday Feb. 10, 2024
The 2024 OPS Unified Regional Bargaining Conferences have been scheduled. A notice regarding Demand setting process will be sent in the coming weeks. Regional Bargaining Conferences The Local’s official call went out last week for the upcoming OPS Unified Regional Bargaining Conferences on February 10, 2024. The purpose of the Regional Bargaining Conferences is to…