Category: Campaigns

• Invest in Healthcare, not corporate landlords: Info picket with Ontario Health atHome workers

  Locations: Hamilton – 211 Pritchard Road, Unit 1, Hamilton Burlington – 440 Elizabeth Street, Burlington St. Catharines – 149 Hartzel Road, St. Catherines Brantford – 195 Henry Street, Unit 4, Building 4, Brantford Barrie – 15 Sperling Dr, Barrie Sudbury – 40 Elm St, Sudbury Sault Ste. Marie – 390 Bay Street, Sault Ste. Marie…

  Andy Pedersen

  November 7, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

• Message of solidarity for all those impacted by Hurricane Melissa

  Dear members:   As many of you will know, the worst hurricane ever to make landfall in Jamaica struck the island last week. The damage was extensive, with high winds approaching 300 km/h, accompanied by heavy rains and flooding. Hurricane relief efforts are on-going, not just in Jamaica but through Cuba and Haiti and the…

  Andy Pedersen

  November 5, 2025

  Campaigns

  Solidarity

• Results are in – we have ratified our new collective agreement!

  It’s official – full-time college support staff have voted 89% to ratify a new, three-year contract. Our ratification vote was historic, with over 75% of the division participating – that’s 7,799 members. This contract was only made possible through five long, difficult weeks on strike. Before we hit the picket lines, we faced an employer…

  Andy Pedersen

  November 4, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

• Worth Fighting For Strike Mandate Votes: YES votes growing every day!

  Workers in the Worth Fighting For campaign are escalating their campaign and demonstrating they are organized and ready to fight for fair pay and long-term funding for the services they provide. To date, 46 units have voted YES in their strike mandate votes, joining more units who are in the process of scheduling strike mandate…

  October 31, 2025

  Campaigns

  Worth Fighting For

• Don’t let Doug Ford cheat your community: tell him to pay community and social service workers what they are owed

  Workers in the Worth Fighting For campaign are ramping up their fight and calling on the Ford government to pay them what they are owed and invest in community and social services.   Workers have had their wages squashed for years while community and social services have been chronically underfunded – leaving long waitlists for services…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 31, 2025

  Campaigns

  Worth Fighting For

• How to vote on your tentative collective agreement

  Voting begins today at 12:00 p.m. on our tentative agreement, and will be open until Tuesday, November 4th at 3:00 p.m.   Every full-time college support staff can vote on accepting the tentative agreement brought forward by the Bargaining Team. This moment marks a strategic milestone – not the end of our fight, but a powerful…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 30, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

• Worth Fighting For at Queen’s Park: Day of Action recap

  On Thursday, October 23, OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario community and social services workers and allies took our fight straight to the Ford government at Queen’s Park!  Workers in the coordinated bargaining campaign are fighting to secure stable, long-term funding that invests in community and social services and finally provides workers meaningful wage increases. Years after…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 24, 2025

  Campaigns

  Worth Fighting For

• Community and social services workers demand for long-overdue justice from Ford Conservatives for Bill 124

  More than 600 days since Bill 124 was repealed, tens of thousands of community and social services workers are still waiting for the wages that were stolen from them. With the return of the Ontario Legislature, workers are calling on Doug Ford’s Conservative government to finally deliver justice. Bill 124, passed in 2019, capped wage increases…

  October 22, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Bill 124

• Workers at Central West Specialized Developmental Services (CWSDS) resoundingly vote NO to Employer’s forced “last offer” vote as potential lockout looms 

  Yesterday, workers at Central West Specialized Developmental Services (CWSDS) voted resoundingly to reject a forced “last offer” from their Employer. In the final results, 94% of workers cast ballots, with 97% voting to reject the employer’s last offer. For weeks, workers at CWSDS have faced continued intimidation and uncertainty with a looming potential lockout by…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 16, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Strike

• College Full-time Support Staff Bargaining Update #30: Mediation continues tomorrow – hold the line!

  Mediation between your College Support Full-Time bargaining team and the College Employer Council (CEC) will continue tomorrow, Tuesday, October 14. Unless otherwise communicated, we remain on strike. For nearly five weeks, our strength, unity, and dedication throughout this fight have not wavered. Now it is absolutely essential that we carry that strength through to this…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 13, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Strike

• College Full-time Support Staff Bargaining Update #29: Mediation resumes tomorrow.

  For a difficult and transformative month, we have held the line for the future of our work and the future of student support.   As a division, our groundbreaking organizing has been raising the bar across the province. We’ve beat back concessions and made critical gains on language we did not see movement on until we…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 10, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Strike

• International student/worker FAQ session w/ Lawyer for Part-time College Workers about the strike vote

  There is an session with an immigration lawyer happening on Wednesday, October 15 at 6pm on Zoom regarding the strike vote. Zoom link: https://opseu-org.zoom.us/j/84378199714?pwd=a837nvTlMshDcEozMSmm3bjZ00hUaG.1

  October 10, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Strike

• College Support Part-Time Staff: Updated Strike Vote FAQ

  When is the strike vote? Our strike vote will be held from Tuesday, October 14th at 12pm through until Friday, October 17th at 3pm. The vote will be conducted by the Ontario Labour Board and your unique voting credentials will be sent to your work or personal email, and will be conducted online or on…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 10, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Strike

• On October 23, join the Worth Fighting For Day of Action at Queen’s Park

  Over the past year, community and social services workers in OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario have been organizing and building power. Now, we’re taking our fight for long-term funding and justice for stolen wages right to the Ford government’s doorstep. The legislature returns next week, and this is a perfect moment to make our voices heard.…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 10, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Worth Fighting For

• College Full-time Support Staff Bargaining Update #28: An invitation back to the table.

  Today, we sent a comprehensive proposal package with a pathway to settlement to the College Employer Council (CEC), alongside an invitation to return to the bargaining table immediately. Please find enclosed an accompanying letter, intending transparency, which has also gone out to all 24 College Presidents providing this update. Solidarity, Your College Support Full-Time Bargaining Team: Christine…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 10, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Strike

• Union representing 10,000 striking full-time college support staff aims to re-start negotiations through settlement proposal: “We’re waiting at the table.”

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – Earlier today, the Ontario full-time college support staff bargaining team, represented by OPSEU/SEFPO, re-engaged negotiations with the College Employer Council (CEC). The union says that a comprehensive package with a pathway to settlement was sent to the employer, along with an invitation to come back to the bargaining table.…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 9, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Media release, Strike

• College Full-time Support Staff Bargaining Update #27: Employer continues to stall negotiations.

  It’s been 9 days since the employer declared an “impasse” over job security at the tail end of mediation and walked away from the bargaining table – again. It’s been 9 days since the employer sent the message across the table that college presidents are united in the view that this strike does not impact…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 8, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Strike

• Corrections workers say ‘hell no’ to the employer’s bad bargaining

  By Wendy Lee, Local 575, inSolidarity Committee   Correctional workers, along with many allies and supportive representatives from across Ontario, rallied on July 9 at the Sheraton Centre hotel in downtown Toronto.  Fair bargaining is especially critical for members of the OPSEU/SEFPO Correctional Bargaining Unit (CBU). “Corrections staff members continue to work in overcrowded, under-funded institutions…

  October 8, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Solidarity

• Worth Fighting For Day of Action at Queen’s Park!

  On October 23rd, Worth Fighting For takes on Queen’s Park! Over the past year, community and social services workers in OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario have been organizing and building power. Thousands of workers across the province have leveraged that power by taking coordinated strike mandate votes. Now, the Worth Fighting For campaign is taking the…

  October 7, 2025

  Campaigns

  Worth Fighting For

• Map of Worth Fighting For locations

  October 7, 2025

  Bargaining, Campaigns