Tag: Interest Arbitration Awards
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LockTalk #1: Back to the Table
After a few short months, Lock Talk, the voice of the Correctional Bargaining Team, is back. As we enter a fresh round of negotiations, remember that Lock Talk is your only source for accurate and up-to-date information. Although we just settled our Collective Agreement, and editing remains ongoing, the agreement expires on December 31, 2024.…
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LockTalk #28 – Final issue for the 2021 round of bargaining
This is the final edition of Lock Talk for the 2021 Round of Bargaining. The majority of items have been implemented at this time, and any further communication regarding implementation issues will be communicated through Local Presidents. Wages and Retro Pay The updated wage grids have now been implemented for Correctional Bargaining Unit members. The…
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LockTalk #27 – Agreement reached on Nurse Practitioner wages
Following the update on May 9th, 2024 in LockTalk 26, the Employer came back to the table with an updated proposal on Nurse Practitioner wages. The updated proposal reduced the number of steps on the Nurse Practitioner wage grid from eight to six and raised the starting wage rate for a new Nurse Practitioner, eliminating…
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LCBO Bargaining Update: Bill 124 Award, March 12 Day of Action, Next Contract
Liquor Board Employees Division (LBED) members across Ontario have a very busy week ahead! This past weekend, your LBED Bargaining Team achieved an arbitrated award for the past three years of unconstitutional wage restraints imposed by the now-repealed Bill 124. After months of organizing and participation, LCBO workers across the province are now ready to…
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LockTalk #23: Arbitration Award Explained
On December 4th, 2023, the Corrections Arbitration Award was released. LockTalk #22 can be reviewed through this link to access the award, the Union briefs, and the Employer briefs. The Correctional Bargaining Team encourages all members to review the proposals put forward by the bargaining team, and the employer’s views of its employees. The Correctional…
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LockTalk #22: Arbitration Decision Released
Arbitrator Kaplan released his arbitration award for the Correctional Bargaining Unit at noon today. Here is a link to his full decision. A reminder that this decision is final and binding on the parties. As the Correctional Bargaining Team has committed throughout the bargaining process, below are the full briefs and reply briefs of the…
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CBS Bargaining Update: February 2023
Dear members, Your bargaining team is writing to provide the latest news on the status of our Collective Agreement. In our last newsletter in October, we provided an update on the progress of Interest Arbitration. As many of you are aware, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice declared the Doug Ford government’s Bill 124 legislation,…
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Hospital Professionals Division central bargaining update: interest arbitration award released
We have received arbitrator William Kaplan’s interest arbitration award. Read the award. Read the agreed-to items from bargaining: Items-in-Agreement-OPSEU-SEFPO-and-the-Participating-Hospitals-April-29-2022.pdf Items-in-Agreement-OPSEU-SEFPO-and-the-Participating-Hospitals-May-12-2022.pdf A summary of the award and the agreed-to items will follow shortly, along with details for information sessions that will be held next week. In solidarity, Your HPD bargaining team: Sandi Blancher (Chair) Betty Palmieri…
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Bargaining update: The interest arbitration award is in
Because of Bill 124, this was an extremely difficult, almost impossible round of bargaining. We refused to accept what the employer was offering, but through interest arbitration, We’ve achieved the maximum that Bill 124 allows. I want to thank all members for their patience and support throughout the entire bargaining process and for their solidarity…
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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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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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OPS Table Talk 2016 Issue 50 – The arbitrator responds to the team
In Table Talk 49, your correctional bargaining team informed you that the employer had written to confirm their verbal position on three points: They confirmed that the special wage adjustment – two per cent or three per cent – was in addition to the already awarded 1.4 per cent general wage increase. They limited the…
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Grievance Board blasts jail management for misconduct
North Bay – The Grievance Settlement Board has ruled in favour of a union official at North Bay Jail accused of “bullying, harassing, intimidating and threating individuals in the workplace” over three years ago. Mike Bisaillon, then president of Local 616 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), was suspended with pay for three…