Tag: Certifications
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SickKids lab workers join OPSEU
Medical laboratory staff at SickKids have voted 74 per cent in favour of joining the union. In a representation vote held on August 18, 2015, over 230 laboratory technologists, technicians and assistants, phlebotomists, test development technologists, resource technologists and senior resource technologists voted for OPSEU as their union of choice. The laboratory staff had identified…
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OPSEU welcomes Owen Sound Family Health Team
Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President of OPSEU, announced today that workers with the Owen Sound Family Health Team had chosen to become members of the union. Employees voted 74 per cent in favour of joining OPSEU in a vote held on July 7. “I am absolutely delighted to welcome these new members into the OPSEU family,”…
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Summer caseworkers at Parkdale Community Legal Services joining OPSEU
On August 5th, 2015 the ballot boxes from the certification vote held on behalf of the summer caseworkers at Parkdale Community Legal Services, (PCLS) were unsealed. The results: 88 per cent had voted in favour of joining OPSEU. About a month ago, OPSEU made an application on behalf of the summer caseworkers at PCLS (who…
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CMHA workers in Leeds-Grenville vote to join OPSEU
Workers with the Canadian Mental Health Association in Leeds-Grenville have unanimously voted to join OPSEU following a representation vote in Brockville last week. “The trend is clear: more and more community mental health workers in Ontario have signaled that OPSEU is their union of choice,” said Ed Arvelin, chair of the union’s mental health sector.…
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OPSEU condemns proposed labour law changes; calls on all unions to fight back
A proposal to change labour law rules when competing unions find themselves facing merger votes violates worker rights and undermines democracy in the workplace, the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said yesterday. “If Bill 109, as currently drafted, passes into law then a worker will lose the right to determine which union…
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Southlake Regional Health Centre pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants join OPSEU
July 2, 2015 OPSEU welcomes our newest Allied Health members at the Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket. On June 23, the pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants chose to join OPSEU in a representation vote. Sara Labelle, chair of OPSEU’s Hospital Professionals Division, is proud to represent these new members. “More and more Allied…
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OPSEU welcomes Mackenzie Health workers
By a margin of 85 per cent support, hospital professionals at Mackenzie Health in York Region have made OPSEU their union of choice! In a vote taken earlier this week, 65 laboratory technologists, technicians and assistants, pathologist assistants and electrocardiogram technicians strongly favoured joining the union. President Warren (Smokey) Thomas said the positive decision taken…
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OPSEU’s Newest Members 2013
For New Members 2014 click here OPSEU welcomes newest long term care members at Mohawk Council of Akwesasne December 19, 2013 On Wednesday, December 18, 2013, a historic agreement was entered into between the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. Thomas said that this agreement creates a unique labour "code"…
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OPSEU’s Newest Members 2014
Lakehead University Technology Services Centre choose OPSEU December 9, 2014 OPSEU welcomes our newest members at Lakehead University. On November 27, 2014, a representation vote was held of all the Technology Services Centre staff at the university at both the Thunder Bay and Orillia Campuses. The ballots were counted on December 4 and 80 per cent…
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Unfair treatment, precarious work at heart of union vote
TORONTO – Unfair treatment and precarious working conditions are at the heart of an October vote by part-time support staff at Ontario’s 24 community colleges on whether to join the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). Up to 10,000 part-timers are eligible to cast ballots in the largest union certification vote in Ontario history. “We…
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Speaking Notes: Queen’s Park News Conference: Democracy denied! Count Part-Time Workers’ ballots now!
Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President Ontario Public Service Employees Union It’s a pleasure of mine to join you here this morning. My name is Smokey Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. The gentleman next to me needs no introduction. I’d like to thank Rosario Marchese, MPP for Trinity-Spadina, for joining me at today’s…
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OPSEU to Premier: restore democratic rights to part-time college workers
In a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty, OPSEU president Smokey Thomas writes that the Minister of Training, Colleges and University has the legislative authority to order Colleges to count the ballots of part-time college workers who voted more than two years ago to organize. February 3, 2011 The Hon. Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario Legislative…
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NUPGE and OPSEU slam governments for misrepresenting part-time issue at the ILO.
OPSEU’s quest to recognize the right of part-time Ontario college workers to union representation has been consistently stonewalled by the employer and the process at the Ontario Labour Relations Board. So why did the Canadian and Ontario governments suggest to the ILO that all is OK? In a letter to the Director-General of the International…
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Milloy must intervene with Colleges to uphold rights of college workers to organize
(TORONTO) – A dispute at the Ontario Labour Relations Board that is preventing more than 9,000 part-time community college workers the right to join a union could be resolved immediately if the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities intervened by using his legislative authority, the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said today.…
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ILO urges McGuinty to address part-time college worker concerns
The McGuinty government has snubbed the International Labour Organization by refusing to respond to OPSEU’s allegations regarding the rights of part-time college workers to organize, according to a recent ILO report. The report requests that McGuinty meet with OPSEU, stating ““the committee requests the Government to initiate consultations with the union concerned with the view…
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ILO loses patience with Ontario government for impeding part-time college workers’ right to join a union
ILO asks the Ontario government “to lift any obstacle in law and practice” which continues to hinder part-time college workers from exercising their right to join a union and bargain collectively For the third time in seven years, the International Labour Organization (ILO), has reprimanded the Ontario government for impeding 16,000 part-time community college workers…
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Count the Votes Now!
Milloy held to account on CAAT Part-time organizing November 23, 2010 Further to our web item on the International Labour Organization report (