Category: Campaign
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Protect OMERS Pension: Telephone Town Hall
If you are a member of the OMERS pension plan, you’ll want to be on this call. In June 2020, the OMERS Sponsors Corporation Board will be voting on whether to take guaranteed indexing – our guaranteed cost of living raises in retirement – out of the plan. OPSEU has told OMERS in no uncertain…
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Day of Action: Stop Legal Aid Cuts!
On July 30, tell Attorney General Doug Downey and Doug Ford: Stop the cuts to Legal Aid and community legal clinics! Join the coalition of community members, frontline legal aid workers, and lawyers at protests and actions in communities across the province. Ford’s $300 million cuts to legal aid will hurt a huge number of…
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Peers Need Peers: Thunder Bay BBQ
Join OPSEU members in Thunder Bay for a lunch BBQ and raffle! All proceeds raised will go to Boots on the Ground peer-to-peer support program, which is working toward establishing a presence throughout northern Ontario to offer in-person peer support 24/7. Please click here to RSVP and share on Facebook! Date: July 25, 2019 Time: 11…
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Peers Need Peers: Dryden BBQ
Join OPSEU members in Dryden for a lunch BBQ and raffle! All proceeds raised will go to Boots on the Ground peer-to-peer support program, which is working toward establishing a presence throughout northern Ontario to offer in-person peer support 24/7. Please click here to RSVP and share on Facebook! Date: July 24, 2019 Time: 11 a.m.…
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Peers Need Peers: Kenora BBQ
Join OPSEU members in Kenora for a lunch BBQ and raffle! All proceeds raised will go to Boots on the Ground peer-to-peer support program, which is working toward establishing a presence throughout northern Ontario to offer in-person peer support 24/7. Please click here to RSVP and share on Facebook! Date: July 23, 2019 Time: 11…
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Peers Need Peers: Fort Frances BBQ
Join OPSEU members in Fort Frances for a lunch BBQ and raffle! All proceeds raised will go to Boots on the Ground peer-to-peer support program, which is working toward establishing a presence throughout northern Ontario to offer in-person peer support 24/7. Please click here to RSVP and share on Facebook! Date: July 22, 2019 Time:…
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The Doug Downey Welcoming Committee
The Ford government’s funding cuts to Legal Aid Ontario has made it more difficult for Ontarians injured on the job to seek compensation and justice. OPSEU members will be joining the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Group (ONIWG) and the Barrie District Injured Worker Group for a “teach-in” outside of Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey’s…
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Tell MPP Norm Miller: Resist the Cuts!
Please RSVP and share this event on Facebook! Join the Muskoka Power of Many group and OPSEU members on Saturday, June 8 and urge MPP Norm Miller to resist the Ford governemnt cuts and stand up for our community! June 7 will mark the one-year anniversary since Doug Ford was elected. Since then, Muskoka has…
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Pop-Up Community Legal Clinics across the Greater Toronto Area
Please RSVP and share on Facebook! (Time and details for each location will be updated there.) Under the threat of closure and cuts to legal aid clinics across the GTA, we’re bringing the community legal clinics to the doorstep of Conservative MPPs. See below for the current list of MPP offices we’ll be visiting with…
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Rally: Stand with Wauzhushk Onigum Nation
OPSEU’s Indigenous Circle invites all friends and supporters to come out on Monday morning to Osgoode Court House for a rally in support of Wauzhushk Onigum Nation (WON). Rally: 8:00 a.m. Press Conference: 8:30 a.m. WON has launched legal action against the Ontario Government, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) and Gateway Casinos, after…
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Phone Blitz! Tell Caroline Mulroney: Human Rights Matter!
On April 1, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Phone Attorney General Caroline Mulroney! 905-895-1555 Tell her: Human rights matter! I support the Human Rights Legal Support Centre (HRLSC) because every year they help thousands of people who experience discrimination. I don’t support your 10% cut to their funding – please restore their funding…
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Healthcare leaflet drop in the riding of Newmarket-Aurora
Dear OPSEU members of the Newmarket-Aurora riding and Region 3, The Ford government’s proposed Bill 74 – The People’s Health Care Act, 2019 is threatening the very foundation of our public health care system. On the table is massive restructuring to hospitals, long-term care, home care, community care and mental health services. Without a doubt,…
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Health Professionals Lobby Day
OPSEU’s Hospital Professionals Division will be holding a lobby day at Queen’s Park. We invite you, or a designee, to attend lobby events on Monday March 4th and Tuesday March 5th, 2019. On Monday March 4th, participants are expected to attend an afternoon lobby training session at the Courtyard Marriott, in downtown Toronto. Participants will…
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‘Keep It Public’ Information Pickets
OPSEU members at the LCBO are holding information pickets to give shoppers the chance to tell government to keep the LCBO public. Click here to see a list of dates and locations. By visiting www.keepitpublic.ca, people can send an email to their MPP and Premier Doug Ford urging them to keep the LCBO public. The…
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Health Professionals’ Week: June 18 – 24, 2018
A celebration of Ontario’s allied health professionals! We are the backbone of public health care” Allied health professionals are at the heart of our health care system. They make sure that doctors aren’t guessing, and that patients receive the highest quality care. For more information about Health Professionals’ Week: June 18 – 24, 2018, click…