Category: Events
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Information picket in support of workers at Surex Community Services
Join members of OPSEU Local 5102 at a lunchtime information picket in support of their bargaining demands. Workers at Surex Community Services have voted 98 per cent in favour of strike action if necessary. They are resolved to bargain a collective agreement that provides fair wages as well as benefits for all staff. Approximately 76…
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OPSEU scholarship deadline fast approaching
The application deadline for the OPSEU Larry Cripps Scholarship and Global Solidarity Scholarships is June 15, 2017. Are you an OPSEU member with a dependent enrolled in either a Police Foundations course or a Law and Security/Corrections course at a public post-secondary institution in Ontario? Your dependent must apply by June 15 for a chance…
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Sexual Harassment Awareness Week June 1-7
For more information on Sexual Harassment Awareness Week, click here.
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June 1-7 is Sexual Harassment Awareness Week
Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, sexual harassment is defined as “engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought to be known to be unwelcome.” Sexual harassment is discriminatory. It damages the emotional, psychological, and physical well-being of the person it is aimed at. It hurts the person’s dignity…
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June 1: a day to fight for injured workers
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas released the following statement today to mark Injured Workers Day in Ontario. June 1 marks Injured Workers Day in Ontario, a date set aside each year to defend the interests of tens of thousands of workers in our province who are injured on the job. We observe this day to…
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Injured Workers’ Day
Injured workers from across the province will gather in Toronto once more on June 1, Injured Workers Day, to call public attention to the explosive growth of precarious work in Ontario that is making more and more workplaces less and less safe. To make matters worse, workers now face ever-greater obstacles to qualify for compensation…