Tag: Job cuts

• Judicial review needed before psychiatric patient advocates transferred to CMHA

  (TORONTO) – There must be a judicial review before the Ontario government moves ahead with its controversial plan to have the Canadian Mental Health Association take over operation of the independent Psychiatric Patients Advocacy Office (PPAO), the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said today. “The Ministry of Health has come under justified…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Job cuts

• Cuts Hurt Us All News: Letter to Editor

  Countdown to cuts {“fid”:”26149″,”view_mode”:”youtube”,”fields”:{“format”:”youtube”,”filename_field[en][0][value]”:”Lso8R3gz5hM”},”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“class”:”file media-element file-youtube”},”link_text”:”Lso8R3gz5hM”} Two days in advance of further layoffs in the OPS, members and supporters rallied in front of a downtown hotel where Premier Dalton McGuinty was talking to business leaders about his plan for deep spending cuts. The rally’s message was clear: create jobs, don’t cut them. When people have…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Campaigns

  Job cuts

• 28 specialized workers given layoff notice at Whitby’s Ontario Shores

  Another blow for children’s mental health WHITBY – Twenty-eight full and part-time child and youth workers are facing layoff at Ontario Shores (formerly Whitby Mental Health Centre) despite four decades of success with some of the province’s most difficult to place youth. The Ontario Shores Adolescent Residential Rehab program has turned around the lives of…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Court Reporters July 13 2010 Update: Vice-Chair denies employer request to dismiss

  In a decision dated June 30, 2010, Vice-Chair Abramsky dismissed the employer’s motion to dismiss all remedies related to the Hunt grievance. The employer wanted the decision dismissed because they said the union did not comply with a previous Board order to supply particulars. In contrast, in her ruling, Vice-Chair Abramsky said, “…the union made…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Grievances

  Court Reporters, Grievance Awards, Job cuts

• Twenty more mental health layoffs in London-St. Thomas

  LONDON — Mental health services at Regional Mental Health Centre – London and St. Thomas have been placed in jeopardy as a result of 20 layoffs announced yesterday. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union received notice from the Regional Mental Health Centre that the positions will be gone effective May 12, 2011 due to budget…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Rally to tell government: “Don’t throw away millions – keep Ontario Place open”

  TORONTO – The public is being invited to join the fight to keep Ontario Place open while “revitalization” plans are being developed: Date: Saturday, February 25, 2012 Time: 10 a.m. Location: Ontario Place 955 Lakeshore Blvd. W. Main entrance Toronto Two 20-foot banners calling on the public to “Save Ontario Place” will be unveiled. Speakers…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Campaigns

  Job cuts

• PC Fact Check: Doug Holyday misleads public about ServiceOntario wages

  TORONTO — Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Doug Holyday is deliberately misleading the public about the wages earned by the employees at ServiceOntario. Holyday stood up in the Legislature yesterday claiming ServiceOntario employees earn, on average, $145,000 a year. He arrived at that completely bogus figure by taking the organization"s total expenditures ($289 million) and dividing…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Ontario Shores Letters

  Letter from Dr. Simon Davidson, Medical Director at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Letter from OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas to the Chair of Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences Letter from Doreen Sjonger, a former supervisor and residential coordinator at Whitby Mental Health Centre Letter from Andrea Horwath, Ontario NDP Leader…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• MNR restructuring plan demands close scrutiny: OPSEU

  What is happening? Due to budget cuts, the Ministry of Natural Resources is restructuring how the ministry operates. It is changing its field structure, reducing over time the number of activities under legislation that require approval and re-organizing its divisions. As a result, MNR will today announce its intentions to: Cut 102 jobs in 24…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Job cuts

• Job-threatened workers at Providence Care donate to the less fortunate during the holidays

  KINGSTON – Despite facing layoffs, workers at Providence Care are digging deep in their pockets to help the less fortunate over the holiday season. Workers at the facility, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 431, are donating $1,000 to a local homeless shelter and $1,150 to the community food bank. OPSEU President…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Cuts and privatization not the way to quality mental health care

  Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Services (former Whitby Mental Health) is the latest provincial hospital to make significant cuts to service in order to meet the government’s legislative requirement to balance its budget. Unlike most general hospitals, Ontario Shores represents an abandonment of the government’s commitment to make mental health services a prioritiy. “The…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• 27,000 patients affected by closure of Oshawa medical clinic

  (OSHAWA) — Dr. Adrian Pettyan is retiring, but staff at his medical clinic may be excused for not taking up a collection to buy him a gift. Pettyan is closing the busy Oshawa medical clinic, disrupting access to primary care for thousands of patients in the community and costing the jobs of at least 15…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Court Reporters January 26 2010 update: Abramsky issues further decision on Court Reporters

  On December 4, 2009, GSB Vice-Chair Abramsky issued a further decision regarding the ongoing issues involving the production of transcripts by Court Reporters.  In July, 2009, the employer announced a scheme to further contract in the transcription portion of the Court Reporter’s duties. This was the very issue that took us to the Grievance Settlement…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Grievances

  Court Reporters, Grievance Awards, Job cuts

• Trenton boy brings fight to save Ontario Place to Toronto

  TORONTO – An 11-year old student from Trenton, Ontario will join supporters at Nathan Phillip’s Square at noon today with a petition to save Ontario Place. WHAT: Save Ontario Place Information Table WHEN: Wednesday, March 7, noon WHERE: Nathan Phillip’s Square, 100 Queen St. W., Toronto Trevor Bruinix was in the news recently for collecting…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Rally and Bubble Party for Thistletown Review

  Families fight to keep “beautiful” place for autistic children OPSEU members stand in partnership with Ontarians as we face dramatic cuts to public services. As noted by OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas, “There is no line between our membership and the public, as we will all be badly affected by the choices being made by…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Job cuts

• PC and NDP MPPs declare support to restore Ontario Ranger Program

  MPPs representing the Conservative and New Democratic parties have joined a growing call to have the provincial government overturn its decision one year ago to cancel the popular Ontario Ranger Program.

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Ontario Public Service: Ontarians Health Care Information put at Risk

  Ontario’s health ministry has awarded an administrative services contract for the Ontario Drug Benefit Program (ODBP) to a U.S. based company, MAXIMUS INC.  Using a private U.S. based contractor potentially exposes the health care information of millions of Ontarians to provisions of the U.S.  Patriot Act.  ODBP offers assistance with prescription drugs, nutrition products and…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Ministry sleight-of-hand does little to improve employment standards enforcement

  (TORONTO) – An announcement last week by the Ministry of Labour that it intends to strengthen the Employment Standards Act by hiring 18 additional enforcement officers was quietly followed days later by a decision to lay off 19 staff doing investigative work.  On Sept. 17 the Ministry announced with considerable media fanfare that it was…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release

• Hundreds join ODSP Picket Lines demanding $60 million to stop understaffing crisis

  In a province-wide show of solidarity, hundreds of staff of the Ontario Disability Support Program rallied outside OSDP offices today to demand the provincial government stop the understaffing crisis affecting the delivery of public services to 325,000 Ontarians with disabilities and living beneath the poverty line. OPSEU president Warren (Smokey) Thomas told a Queen’s Park…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Campaigns

  Job cuts

• Crime fighting unit latest victim of provincial austerity measures: OPSEU

  (TORONTO) – In its frenzy to bring down the provincial deficit, the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services has laid off the entire staff of an office responsible for fighting crime through analysis of electronic data. All six members of the electronics investigation unit of the ministry’s Centre for Forensic Sciences learned this week…

  Andy Pedersen

  March 21, 2014

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Job cuts, Media release