Tag: Newsletter
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CAAT-A bargaining bulletin 3: CAAT-A team lays out blueprint for better college system
Message from the President and the FVP/T: Getting down to brass tacks Download the pdf. After first meeting with the College Employer Council in early July, CAAT-A bargaining resumed with the employer for three more days this week. The team laid out faculty members’ comprehensive list of ranked demands established at our April demand set…
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CAAT-S PT bargaining bulletin 5: We have a tentative agreement!
Message from the President and First Vice-President/Treasurer: Congratulations on your tentative deal The first day at the bargaining table is always uncertain. No matter how long you prepare and how hard you work on proposals, you can never be sure of 50 per cent of the equation: the employer. What concessions are they going after?…
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Sector 5 Community Agencies Newsletter
Message from the President On behalf of OPSEU/SEFPO’s entire Executive Board, I want to thank you for your ongoing dedication to the vulnerable clients you support, and to this union and province. Essential, front line workers like you have kept this province running during the darkest days of the pandemic. You are all heroes in…
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CAAT-S PT bargaining team to meet with highest-ranking ahead of ratification vote
The bargaining team for OPSEU/SEFPO employees in the CAAT-S PT Division is eager to begin the ratification process on the tentative agreement reached with the College Employer Council (CEC) on June 25. The first step will be holding a meeting of the highest-ranking CAAT-S PT divisional members from each of Ontario’s 24 colleges. It will…
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College Support Part-time Bargaining Bulletin 3: The Team meets the employer on the first day at the table
On June 22, OPSEU/SEFPO’s bargaining team met virtually with the College Employer Council (CEC) to exchange proposals in the negotiation of their first renewal collective agreement covering over 10,000 college support part-time members. Download the pdf. The teams will meet again this Friday, June 25, for day two of bargaining. A third day of bargaining…
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College Support Part-time Bargaining Bulletin 2: All set to bargain!
Message from the President and First Vice-President/Treasurer After spending some solid time preparing for success at the table, your bargaining team and the employer have landed on bargaining dates. We’re as excited as you and your team to get moving. The team is taking a number of urgent demands to the table – things that…
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HPD Bargaining Bulletin: Meet your Bargaining Team
Download a PDF of the bulletin. Message from OPSEU/SEFPO President & First Vice-President/Treasurer Thank you to all Hospital Professionals in OPSEU/SEFPO for your dedication to supporting Ontarians during this extremely difficult time. Wave after wave, you have kept pushing through this pandemic to deliver quality care and keep our hospitals running. You are front-line heroes,…
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CBS Bargaining Bulletin: June 2021
Download a PDF of the bulletin. Message from OPSEU/SEFPO’s President and First Vice-President/Treasurer Our deepest thanks goes out to all of you for your work on the frontlines of this pandemic. The public is relying on access to a safe, reliable blood supply now more than ever. As essential frontline workers, you’ve shown Ontarians your…
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The soul of our schools – Sector 3 newsletter
Download a printable PDF of this newsletter Message from President: Education workers are the soul of our schools. We know everything you do for our children and for the public education system and we thank you for your effort and sacrifice. OPSEU/SEFPO is committed to supporting our members in education and we are bringing your…
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CAAT Part-Time Support Bargaining Update
To: CAAT part-time support members Your bargaining team has been preparing a bargaining strategy and developing proposals that will achieve the mandate you gave us at our Final Demand-Set Meeting. The next step in the process is to sit down with the employer and push your demands forward. We hope to see significant movement in…
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A good deal to celebrate
2021 LBED Bargaining Bulletin, Issue 7 Download a printable PDF of this bulletin Telephone town hall details, May 20 OPSEU/SEFPO is hosting two telephone town halls on Thursday, May 20. One is at 10 a.m. EST, the other is at 7:30 p.m. EST. All LBED members are encouraged to attend at least one. If OPSEU/SEFPO…
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All gains, no losses!
2021 LBED Bargaining Bulletin, Issue 6 Download a printable PDF of this bulletin OPSEU/SEFPO Leaders’ Message Could we be any prouder of your bargaining team? They faced the pandemic. They faced your employer’s long list of significant take-aways. And they faced the severe restrictions placed on them by the Ford government’s wage-restraint Bill 124 and…
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BPS Corrections Sector 7 newsletter – Blindsided by closures, layoffs
Click here for a printable PDF Message from OPSEU/SEFPO’s President and First Vice-President/Treasurer As if the past year hasn’t been difficult enough for BPS Corrections. You’ve been risking your health and safety and your lives on the front lines of this pandemic. And not just your own lives. COVID-19 doesn’t disappear at the doors of…
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Turning an employer no to a yes
2021 LBED Bargaining Bulletin, Issue 5 Download a printable PDF of this bulletin OPSEU/SEFPO Leaders’ Message Your bargaining team went to the table with a simple goal – find a way to get a deal that reflects the demands you all set through the demand-set process: more job security, less privatization, and workplaces that are…
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PHO Bargaining Bulletin No. 3 – April 2021
Message from the President and First Vice-President/Treasurer We want to express our sincere thanks to all of you – the specialists of the laboratory world –for the sacrifices you continue to make to meet the surging demand for testing. We know it’s been a roller-coaster ride for you: you’re now carrying out more tests than…
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Non-monetary doesn’t mean non-important
2021 LBED Bargaining Bulletin, Issue 4 Download a printable PDF of this bulletin OPSEU/SEFPO Leaders’ Message Bargaining can be complicated business. To help keep things straight, bargaining teams and negotiators often break it down into two main parts: monetary and non-monetary. It goes without saying that monetary bargaining is incredibly important. That’s where your wages…
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A new vision for the LCBO: safe, public, and more secure than ever
2021 LBED Bargaining Bulletin, Issue 3 OPSEU/SEFPO Leaders’ Message If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we need to create a new normal for front-line workers in Ontario. We are proud to say your bargaining team has worked hard to craft your demands into a solid opening proposal that envisions an exciting new…
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College Faculty Negotiations Bulletin #2 – April 2021
Message from the President and First Vice-President/Treasurer CAAT-A delegates and their bargaining team will soon gather virtually to set out a list of demands to lay on the bargaining table. Click here to download the pdf. In this pivotal bargaining year, there’s one thing you can always count on: OPSEU/SEFPO’s unshakeable support. We know very…
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LCBO: Essentially Yours
2021 LBED Bargaining Bulletin, Issue 2 Click here for a printable PDF Greetings, 2021 bargaining starts this week, but your bargaining committee has been hard at work for weeks. In preparation for this round, they’ve chosen an excellent slogan – LCBO: Essentially Yours. If that rings a bell, it should. It’s the slogan on the…
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BloodLines: CBS Bargaining Bulletin – March 2021
My gratitude goes out to all CBS members. Your work keeping Ontario’s blood supply safe during this pandemic has been vital. You keep the province running, by keeping people healthy. I know, it hasn’t been easy. You’ve faced extremely stressful conditions on the front lines of this crisis. But you’ve got the full support of…