Tag: Municipal
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Racial Justice Summit at Toronto City Hall
Do you work with children and youth in Toronto? On November 18th the Urban Alliance on Race Relations and the Toronto & York Region Labour Council are holding a racial justice summit at City Hall. The focus of the summit will be children and youth and the systemic injustices they face in the city of Toronto.…
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OPSEU/SEFPO supports TTC workers
OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick sent the following letter in support of ATU Local 113 – representing workers at the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) ahead of their May 7 strike deadline. Dear TTC Board Chair and Commissioners, On behalf of OPSEU/SEFPO’s 180,000+ members, I am writing to express our full solidarity with the nearly 12,000 TTC…
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President Hornick pens letter to Mayor Chow and Toronto Councillors opposing motion to suppress freedom of expression & association
OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick sent the following letter to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and City Councillors urging them to vote against a motion that calls for provincial legislation to restrict freedom of expression and association by restricting the right to “protest” in specified zones: Dear Mayor Chow and Council Members, On behalf of 180,000 OPSEU/SEFPO…
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No Demovictions solidarity rally and march in Flemingdon Park, Toronto
Join tenant collective No Demovictions, Ontario Science Centre workers from OPSEU/SEFPO Local 549, and Region 5 Vice President Coleen Houlder in Flemingdon Park, Toronto, to take a stand against profit-drive demolitions in the neighbourhood! WHEN: Saturday, July 29th at 1PM WHERE: 48 Grenoble Drive to Valley Park Middle School (12 minute walk), Toronto WHO: No…
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Olivia Chow – the fighter for Toronto we need!
Click here to confirm your voting location. Consider Voting for Olivia Chow – the fighter we need! Find out more about Volunteer directly with Olivia’s campaign Olivia Chow’s Campaign site. Read the Toronto & York Region Labour Council’s key issues.
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Region 5 – Come to the sign making party before the Enough is Enough rally!
Come on out before the rally on Saturday and bring your passion and creatively to help make signs for the Enough is Enough rally! GTAC will bring the art supplies and are asking members to bring your inspiring slogans! What: GTAC & Region 5 – Sign Making for the Enough is Enough protest. When: Saturday,…
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Public and private sector union leaders endorse Olivia Chow for mayor of Toronto
– Statement from ETT, OPSEU/SEFPO, CUPE Ontario, ATU Canada and USW – TORONTO, ON – As leaders of unions that collectively represent hundreds of thousands of working people across the City of Toronto, we are pleased to announce our joint endorsement of Olivia Chow for the office of the Mayor. We offer this endorsement as…
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Come out this Saturday to save the Ontario Science Centre!
For more than 50 years the world-class Ontario Science Centre has inspired generations of Ontario’s kids to love science — and now it’s under threat! The Ford government is planning to close the Ontario Science Centre and move it to Ontario Place, in a location half the size of the current building. OPSEU/SEFPO Local 549…
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Celebrate International Workers Day 2023 by taking action!
May 1 is International Workers Day, also known as May Day – a day for workers around the world to celebrate worker solidarity and recommit to the fight for workers’ rights everywhere. There are lots of ways OPSEU/SEFPO members can celebrate and take action on May Day, and throughout the month of May. Here are…
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Union leaders unite to call for a new Toronto mayor for everybody – not just a few
Union leaders from OPSEU/SEFPO, CUPE Ontario, Elementary Teachers of Toronto and ATU Canada published an op-ed together in the Toronto Star today calling for a new mayor for Toronto who can reverse the disrepair caused by John Tory and his allies and put the needs of people at the centre of policy. The shared vision…
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Media report on news conference criticizing shuttering of local courts
The CBC, the Toronto Sun and Newstalk 1010 are reporting on a Queen’s Park news conference April 21 at which advocates called out the Ministry of the Attorney General for amalgamating a number of Toronto courthouses into one location in downtown. JP Hornick, President of OPSEU/SEFPO, Tony Loparco, president of the Ontario Crown Attorneys Association,…
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Democracy is out the door under Ford
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas and First Vice-President/Treasurer Eduardo (Eddy) Almeida are calling on Ford to stop trampling on the constitutional rights of Ontarians, after a group of senior citizens was briskly escorted from the public gallery of the legislature last week in handcuffs. “Their crime?” said Thomas. “They dared speak up for the basic…
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Open letter to Conservative MPPs
Toronto – OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas has sent an open letter to all members of the Conservative caucus, urging them to defend the Charter rights of Ontarians by voting against the use of the “notwithstanding clause” to slash the size of Toronto City Council. Here is the complete text of the open letter: September…
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Time for Tory caucus to issue a ‘Ford recall’: OPSEU President Thomas
Toronto – OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas is calling on Conservative backbenchers to rein in Premier Doug Ford when the legislature resumes sitting Wednesday. Ford has called back the House to ram through his discredited plan to shrink the size of Toronto City Council, invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution to override this week’s…
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Thomas: Backbench Tories should say no to ‘notwithstanding’
During an extended interview this morning on The Bill Kelly Show on AM 900 in Hamilton, OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas called out Doug Ford for his plan to use the “notwithstanding clause” to override Torontonians’ constitutional rights to free expression. During the broadcast, Thomas called on Conservative backbenchers to join the opposition and vote Ford down. “I…
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Ford’s revenge plot thickens, reeks of desperation: OPSEU
Toronto – OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas is calling Premier Ford’s use of the notwithstanding clause to force through his plan to shrink Toronto City Council a political misfire of epic proportions. “Ford has launched a full frontal attack on democracy, and for what?” said President Thomas. “Does he really think the number of seats…