Category: Bargaining
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OPSEU/SEFPO forest fire workers call out false statements by Minister Graydon Smith
TORONTO – Forest fire workers represented by OPSEU/SEFPO are calling out Graydon Smith, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, for false statements made during a closed-door news conference in Timmins that shut out frontline forest fire workers. The workers held their own news conference to demand real solutions and immediate action to resolve the retention…
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2022-2025 wage rates for Hospital Professionals, including pay equity and arbitration award increases
PDF of full wage grid, including pay equity and arbitration increases 2022-2025 arbitration decision The Kaplan General Wage increases awarded to OPSEU/SEFPO Hospital Professionals at Central Participating Hospitals have required changes to the Pay Equity compliant rates. These new pay-equity compliant rates are below The Kaplan award wage increases: April 1, 2022 – Additional 3.75%…
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OPS Fertility Coverage
As an OPSEU/SEFPO OPS member, the following is offered through your Supplementary Health & Hospital (SH&H) plan (Policy number 15900) as an insured benefit: Fertility drugs, for treatment of infertility are reimbursed as prescription drugs at 90% less $3 per prescription deductible. For those in the Unified bargaining unit, reimbursement will be based on the…
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OPS – Unified Collective Agreement guides
How OPSEU/SEFPO works in the OPS Jan 1 2022 – Dec 31 2024 OPSEU SEFPO Unified Agreement Guide to the Collective Agreement for Regular Employees Guide to the Collective Agreement for Seasonal Employees Guide to the Collective Agreement for Regular Part-Time Employees Guide to the Collective Agreement for Fixed-Term Employees The following Explanatory Notes have…
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OPSEU/SEFPO members: Keep the LCBO public!
On the Friday before Thanksgiving, LCBO workers in Oshawa and Windsor showed up outside their stores to thank customers for supporting their local stores and the workers who keep them running. The collective agreement between the LCBO and OPSEU/SEFPO expires on March 31, 2024. In the coming months, LBED members are mobilizing in their workplaces…
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Staff petition for a living wage at Kingsmere Retirement Living delivered to Sienna Senior Living headquarters
A petition signed by every OPSEU/SEFPO Local 332 retirement home worker at Kingsmere Retirement Living in Alliston, Ontario was delivered today to the headquarters of for-profit giant Sienna Senior Living, which owns Kingsmere. OPSEU/SEFPO represents PSWs, nurses and dietary workers at the retirement home. The petition, demanding a $3/hour wage increase for every Local 332…
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Rally to keep the LCBO public!
This Thanksgiving, LCBO workers in Oshawa and Windsor are showing up outside their stores to thank customers for supporting their local stores and the workers who keep them running. The collective agreement between the LCBO and OPSEU/SEFPO expires on March 31, 2024. In the coming months, LBED members are mobilizing in their workplaces and communities…
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LockTalk #19: Employer – why the wait?
As part of the final binding arbitration process, the due date for the exchange of arbitration briefs between the Employer and Union was this past Monday, October 2. We can confirm that the briefs were exchanged by the parties, as directed by Arbitrator Kaplan. Arbitration dates have been confirmed for November 25 and 26. Your…
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Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and Ministry of Indigenous Affairs MERC Minutes
In attendance: For OPSEU: *Bierman (Co-Chair) Jeremy (Jake) Rouse Jessica O’Donnell Jeremy Verdiel Kathleen Demareski, OPS Negotiator For the Employer: Donna Walton (Co-Chair) Laura Aitchison Carly Jones (Minutes) Brian Locke Stephanie Maragna Administrative Items: Approval of Agenda Agenda was approved. Standing Items: 1. Strategic Planning Process (SPP) Disclosure The Employer advised that there are…
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Ford’s Toronto Courthouse Chaos: $956 million-dollar building falling apart, workers getting injured & cases thrown out
OPSEU/SEFPO is alarmed by ongoing incidents at the new Toronto courthouse, which have raised serious concerns for the health and safety of our members working on-site. At this time, the union is aware of at least two members who have been injured on the job – one of whom sustained a serious injury due to…
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Central Employee Relations Committee (CERC) Meeting
September 13, 2023 Location: Microsoft Teams In Attendance: For the Union For the Employer Guests Regrets Amanda Usher, OPSEU Kathleen Demareski, OPSEU Daryl O’Grady, OPSEU Jennifer Price, TBS David Au, TBS Cameron Pyl, TBS Kevin Wilson, TBS Janice Tepper, TBS Alexandra Ellis, TBS Victoria Tsiaras, TBS N/A Steven MacKay, TBS Chris…
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Pay Fair, Protect Children: Workers at the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa hold rally for improved safety and wages
On Thursday, September 28, the members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 454 at the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa, gathered for a rally to call for increased worker safety, better wages, and improved working conditions. The rally took place outside the offices of The Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa between 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. The rally…
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Help CUPE and ONA health care workers get a fair deal – send a letter in solidarity!
70 frontline public health workers (members of CUPE Local 3314) and 50 nurses (members of ONA Local 31) who provide care for the residents of Bellleville, Quinte West, and Hastings and Prince Edward counties are currently on strike. How did they get here? Rapidly increasing workloads and public health funding that hasn’t kept up. Hastings…
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Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa workers hold rally to say, ‘Fair Pay, Protect Children’
On Thursday, September 28, members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 454 who work at the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa will hold a rally outside the offices of The Children’s Aid Society to demand increased worker safety, better wages, and improved working conditions. DATE: Thursday, September, 28 TIME: 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. LOCATION: The Children’s Aid…
Andy Pedersen
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OPS Unified Bargaining Update – September 2023
On Saturday, September 23rd the OPS Unified Bargaining Team met with the employer and assigned mediator Gerry Lee for a second round of wage reopener negotiations. The wage reopener clause – as outlined in the OPS Unified Collective Agreement – was negotiated during the last round of bargaining. It allowed the parties to return to…
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Ministry of Finance Minutes of Ministry Employee Relations Committee (MERC)
For the Union Shanika Duncan (Co-Chair) ** Julieta Losson (Member) Glenna Caldwell (OPS negotiator, OPSEU/SEFPO) Dave Bissoon (Vice-Chair) For the Ministry Heather Bowie (Co-Chair) Nadia Williams (Member) Bonnie Lutes (Member) Claudine Sutherland (Assistant HR Business Advisor) Jessica Medrano (Employee Relations – Resource) Alissa Byers (Employee Relations – Resource) Melisa Arias Montes (HR Business Advisor) Regrets…
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OPSEU/SEFPO in the news: NOSM U faculty and professional staff begin conciliation with strong community support
Medical education faculty and professional staff at NOSM University in Thunder Bay and Sudbury are entering provincially-mediated conciliation with NOSM U administration today, with strong community support. NOSM U faculty, staff, students and supporters have sent more than 1,300 emails to NOSM U senior administrators, urging them to “negotiate a fair deal that upholds the…
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Guide to the Collective Agreement for Regular Employees
Downloadable PDF Prepared for Regular Employees Written in January 2022 OPSEU/SEFPO members who work for the ministries and agencies of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) provide the services that Ontarians depend on every day to keep our communities safe and improve our quality of life. We are the backbone of every public service the province…
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Guide to the Collective Agreement for Seasonal Employees
Downloadable PDF Prepared for Seasonal Employees Written in January 2022 ONTARIO PUBLIC SERVICE – UNIFIED OPSEU/SEFPO members who work for the ministries and agencies of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) provide the services that Ontarians depend on every day to keep our communities safe and improve our quality of life. We are the backbone of…
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Guide to the Collective Agreement for Regular Part-Time Employees
Downloadable PDF Prepared for Regular Part-Time Employees Written in January 2022 Welcome to OPS Unified! The collective agreement covers a wide variety of “things”. Some of them are critically important to know and understand, others don’t apply to you at all as a fixed-term employee. The purpose of this document is to help you navigate…