Tag: Collective Agreement
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Best Corrections contract in years finalized, available online
When the Corrections bargaining team went to the table for a new contract, they came away with great improvements and no concessions – in short, the best contract Corrections has had in years! The 2018-21 collective agreement is now finalized and available to all members online. Printing of hard copies is delayed due to the…
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OCEW Central Tentative Agreement
Click on the following links to download the Central Tentative Agreement documents: OCEW Central Tentative Agreement Summary Memorandum of Settlement Appendix I: OCEW Part A Central Terms Appendix II: OCEW Support for Students Fund Appendix III: OCEW Community Use of Schools In the face of the most challenging of times, the Ontario Council of Educational…
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Find Your Collective Agreement
Province-wide contracts OPSEU regularly receives requests from members covered by province-wide collective agreements for copies of their central contract. The six links below will provide easy access and allow you to download a copy of your collective agreement in Adobe format. CAAT-A Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology – Academic 2021-2024 Academic Collective Agreement.pdf Colleges…
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OPSEU is saving jobs in the OPS
TORONTO — OPSEU has negotiated improvements to the job security rights in both the Unified and Corrections Collective Agreements. An agreement with the government has been reached that will enhance the choices members would have if their job is eliminated. The improvements were worked out by the Central Employee Relations Committee (CERC) and the Corrections…
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OPSEU members join other education workers in giving overwhelming strike mandate
Toronto – OPSEU members have joined workers from other unions in giving an overwhelming strike mandate to support collective bargaining efforts aimed at fighting cutbacks and preserving quality education. The Ontario Council of Educational Workers (OCEW), which OPSEU is a member of, has conducted strike votes in the past few weeks. Workers voted 96 per…
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Arbitration award for hospital professionals at Lakeridge Health
OPSEU Hospital professionals with Local 348 at Lakeridge Health have a new collective agreement. It includes wage gains, an in-lieu percentage increase for former Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) and non-union employees, and scheduling improvements. It’s the first agreement since Lakeridge merged with the former Rouge Valley Health System and the Pinewood Centre in February of…
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OPSEU hospital professionals in Scarborough reach deal
Toronto – OPSEU members with Local 575 at the Scarborough Health Network have a new collective agreement. It’s a first agreement since the bargaining unit was certified May 8, 2018. “It’s been a long struggle,” says Local President, Kingsley Kwok. “The award, while not containing everything that we asked for, is generally accepted by the…
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Ford jeopardizes community health and safety by rewarding backers with private alcohol outlets
TORONTO – Premier Doug Ford is putting party backers before the people as he doubles down on his irresponsible plan to increase private alcohol sales, says OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. “It’s like patronage-happy Dean French never left Ford’s side,” said Thomas. “When you look down the list of 85 communities having more alcohol plied…
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Oh where oh where is all that extra tax revenue? OPSEU’s Thomas asks
Toronto – The Ford government’s boasts of new job creation don’t square with its sky is falling rhetoric about Ontario’s finances, says OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. In a tweet on Friday Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy claimed 202,900 new jobs have been created in the past year, most of which he said are full-time,…
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Ford breaking OPSEU contract with scheme to expand ‘agency stores’
Toronto – OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says Doug Ford is in for yet another expensive court battle he’s bound to lose if he tries to break LCBO workers’ collective agreement and double the number of privatized “agency stores” across the province. “This guy is drunk with power and he’s costing us all a lot…
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AMHS clients, former frontline workers decry cuts
Global News reports that a group of clients and former frontline workers from Addiction and Mental Health Services – Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (AMHS-KFLA) are extremely worried about the layoffs that are continuing to happen at the agency. “Recently, I lost my mental health services and am very distressed about it,” says one woman…
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LockTalk 24: Summary of monetary bargaining and arbitration
On April 20, 2018, the parties began negotiating monetary issues. (Please refer to Employer Monetary Demands and LockTalk 16, which contains a link to our monetary positions.) Click here to download LockTalk 24. The employer was unwilling to agree to any union demands unless there were concessions, takeaways and administrative “cost savings” equal to any…
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LockTalk 23: Summary of all agreed-to items for the Corrections Collective Agreement January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2021
On December 5, 2017, your bargaining team met with the employer to initiate issues bargaining. The union insisted that the initial stages would only deal with non-monetary issues. This strategy was taken in hopes of making the most gains in language and conditions before monetary issues bargaining minimized these issues. Click here to download LockTalk…
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‘History has been made:’ After a long fight, part-time college support staff represented by OPSEU ratify first deal
Toronto – Hailing it as a victory for working people everywhere – particularly those stuck in precarious jobs – OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas has announced that 20,000 part-time support workers at Ontario’s colleges have voted to ratify their first-ever collective agreement. “History has been made,” said Thomas. “OPSEU and this large group of workers…
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Sector 3 Boards Of Education – Collective Agreement – Part A – Central Terms
OCEW Part A: Central Terms OCEW – APPENDIX I TO MOS. 1 C1.00….. Structure and Content of Collective Agreement (ALL JOB CLASSIFICATIONS) 1 C1.1 Separate Central and Local terms. 1 C1.2 Implementation. 1 C1.3 Parties. 1 C1.4 Single Collective Agreement. 1 C2.00….. LENGTH OF TERM/NOTICE TO BARGAIN/RENEWAL (ALL JOB CLASSIFICATIONS) 1 Single Collective Agreement. 1…
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OPSEU bargains collective agreement with its staff union
Statement from President Warren (Smokey) Thomas and First Vice-President/Treasurer Eduardo (Eddy) Almeida regarding a new collective agreement between OPSEU and the Ontario Public Service Staff Union Friends, On behalf of the Executive Board of OPSEU we are pleased to announce that the Ontario Public Service Staff Union (OPSSU) and the Ontario Public Services Employees Union…
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Big victory for OPSEU’s part-time college support staff: Tentative agreement reached
Toronto – OPSEU has hammered out a first ever tentative agreement for some 20,000 part-time support staff in Ontario’s colleges. OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas calls it an historic deal that will vastly improve the working lives of thousands of the union’s newest members. “Our members will no longer have their lives turned upside down…
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Editorial: OPSEU right to publicize wage freeze
In an editorial, The Peterborough Examiner writes that citizens are rightly concerned that the management of their local hospital is targeting a group of female clerical workers with a unilateral wage freeze. “People feel connected to their hospital,” writes The Examiner. “They want to know that if they need medical care the complex organism that…
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Peterborough hospital management attempting to silence its female clerical workers
Peterborough – OPSEU’s President says the union won’t be silenced over the Peterborough Regional Health Centre’s attempt to censor radio ads about the wage freeze it’s trying to impose on female clerical workers. Warren (Smokey) Thomas says OPSEU was informed Thursday that hospital officials contacted at least one radio station running the satirical ad and…
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Thomas leads rally against Peterborough wage freeze
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas led a large group of OPSEU members and local labour allies during a rally outside the Peterborough Regional Health Centre on Dec. 11 to demand that the CEO halt a wage freeze targeted at women. The members of OPSEU Local 345, 98 per cent of whom are women, learned earlier this…