Tag: Collective Agreement
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OPSEU files bad-faith bargaining complaint over wage freezes
Global News is reporting on OPSEU’s bad-faith bargaining complaint over the wage freezes management wants to impose on a group of mostly women who do clerical work at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. “In September, an arbitrator ruled the members of OPSEU Local 345 deserve a contract that includes reasonable wage increases over five years,”…
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OPSEU lodges bad-faith bargaining complaint over wage freezes at Peterborough hospital
Peterborough – The Ontario Public Service Employees Union has filed a bad-faith bargaining complaint with the Ontario Labour Relations Board over the wage freeze management is attempting to impose on the group of largely female clerical workers at Peterborough’s main hospital. “In September, an arbitrator ruled the members of OPSEU Local 345 deserve a contract…
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PRHC clerical workers to rally against wage freeze
The Peterborough Examiner is reporting on the rally that OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas and OPSEU First Vice-President / Treasurer Eduardo (Eddy) Almeida will be attending on Tuesday, Dec. 11, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in support of the OPSEU Local 345 members who are being targeted with a wage freeze. “It’s not OK…
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Peterborough hospital imposing a wage freeze on hundreds of women through ‘rigged’ job evaluations
Peterborough – OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas is vowing to stop the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) from using “rigged” job evaluations to impose a years-long wage freeze on a group of female employees. “I’m not sure if I’m angrier that they’re rigging job evaluations, or that they’re doing it to hurt women who are…
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Better pay and benefits for SickKids medical laboratory staff
Toronto – OPSEU has won a decisive victory in an arbitration award that will improve wages and benefits for over 230 medical laboratory staff at SickKids Hospital after a hard-fought battle for their first collective agreement. Over 230 laboratory technologists, technicians and assistants, phlebotomists, test development technologists, resource technologists and senior resource technologists will receive…
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LockTalk 18: Mediator-Arbitrator appointed
As a follow-up from our LockTalk 17, the team spent this past week at OPSEU Head Office preparing the necessary documents as we move closer to mediation/ arbitration. This involved organizing all our agreed-to items, prioritizing our outstanding items, and building rationale to support them. Later in the week, these were presented to our Mediation-Arbitration lawyer,…
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Corrections bargaining team calls for conciliation
Toronto – The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) team representing correctional workers that is negotiating a first standalone collective agreement with the Ontario government has filed for conciliation with the Ministry of Labour. “Once again, we see this government talking the talk but failing to take action on addressing the crisis in corrections,” said…
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LockTalk 17: Conciliation gives way to mediation/arbitration
As you are aware from LockTalk 16, your bargaining team exchanged monetary demands with the employer on April 20, 2018. Click here to download LockTalk, Issue 17 All monetary proposals from the employer were contingent on cuts to other benefits. In other words, there was no new money for the correctional bargaining unit without concessions…
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LockTalk 16: Moving on to monetary
Gains made in non-monetary items Click here to download LockTalk, Issue 16 Most non-monetary items have now been dealt with. Thanks to the support of the Corrections Division, your bargaining team was able to put enough pressure on the government to force it to relent on key issues. Although it was a gruelling process that…
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LockTalk 14: Taking it to Queen’s Park
On Tuesday, March 27, your bargaining team and mobilizers will be at Queen’s Park, along with other members of our division, to continue lobbying MPPs and bring attention to our urgent needs. Click here to download LockTalk, Issue 14 First Vice-President/Treasurer and bargaining team chair to hold news conference At 10 a.m. on the same…
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Tentative deal laid out before next week’s vote
As we reported in Bloodlines, Issue 7, the CBS bargaining team reached a new tentative collective agreement with the employer on February 28. Click here to download Bloodlines, Issue 8 In this issue, we will present the tentative deal in greater detail so that members will be able to make the most informed choice possible…
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MOL members may participate in survey
The Ministry of Labour (MOL) has launched a survey on its collective bargaining information. It will run until March 21. The survey will be emailed from drs.infoservices@ontario.ca with the subject “2018 Survey on MOL’s Collective Bargaining Information.” The email will contain a link to the survey. Several MOL members have asked whether they should participate…
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Bloodlines, Issue 7: New tentative deal preserves the right to strike
In Issue 3 of Bloodlines, we reported on a tentative agreement reached between the union and the employer – an agreement that members turned down in September. Click here to download Bloodlines, Issue 7 In Issue 3 of Bloodlines, we reported on a tentative agreement reached between the union and the employer – an agreement…
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CBS teletown hall March 8 to discuss deal
On Wednesday, February 28, the Canadian Blood Services Support bargaining team reached a tentative agreement with the employer. Please click here to download the memorandum of settlement. The bargaining team, along with OPSEU negotiator Andrew Ruszczak, will host a teletown hall on the agreement on Thursday, March 8, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Eastern…
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Canadian Blood Services workers reach tentative deal
Toronto – The bargaining team representing more than 850 Canadian Blood Services (CBS) support workers, represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), has reached a new tentative settlement with the employer. The workers have been without a collective agreement since their last contract expired on March 31, 2017. The deal comes in the…
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College support part-time workers: frequently asked questions and answers
On January 30, 2018, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union received the decision from the Ontario Labour Relations Board that part-time college support workers are now certified as a bargaining unit with full rights and entitlements. I am sure that many of you have questions, and we hope this will help answer some of them.…
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OPSEU members at LHINs ratify new deal
Toronto – Workers at four of the province’s Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) have voted 95 per cent in favour of accepting a tentative agreement reached between the employer and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). Julie Lenko, chair of the LHINs’ central bargaining team, said she was very pleased by the scale of…
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Missed the telephone town hall for hospital professionals? Listen here
On Thursday evening, October 19, OPSEU health professionals tuned in to a province-wide telephone town hall to learn more about the three-year tentative collective agreement extension signed last week between the union and the Ontario Hospital Association. To learn more about the extension agreement, please click here. If you missed the town hall, you can…
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Tele-town hall: Update on the tentative contract extension agreement for OPSEU hospital professionals
This Thursday evening, October 19, 2017, just before 7 p.m., you will receive an automated call from Sandi Blancher, chair of the OPSEU hospital professionals bargaining team. Stay on the line and you will be instantly connected to a telephone town hall meeting with hospital professionals across the province to discuss details of the three-year…
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LockTalk, Issue 2: bargaining bulletin for the Correctional bargaining unit
Your corrections bargaining team reconvened after the Thanksgiving holiday on Monday. We have continued to work on our standalone collective agreement (CA), putting the final touches in place. This included reviewing the employer’s draft submissions for the proposed CA. Click here to download LockTalk, Issue 2 Our next meeting with the employer is tentatively scheduled…