Tag: OPSEU in the News

• Max-security patients get pocket money from taxpayers

  Men living out their days in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in Penetanguishene still have a right to get paid — regardless of how many innocent victims they killed, raped or brutally beat. Read the full story in the Toronto Sun. Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  September 17, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Councillor to Host Public Discussion on Privatization of Hydro One

  City Councillor Jim Neill is doing his part to stop the sale of Hydro One to private companies in Ontario. Read more on 98.3 Fly Fm. Related: OPSEU in the News Visit our Fighting Privatization Index Page

  Andy Pedersen

  September 17, 2015

  Campaigns, Media

  Fighting Privatization, OPSEU in the News

• Max-security escape led to changes

  Barely three months after a maximum-security forensic facility set up shop in a new building, designed as a hospital rather than a prison, a patient escaped — something that hadn’t happened in the old Oak Ridge building since the 1950s. Read the full story in the Toronto Sun. Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  September 16, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Staff at new Ontario mental health hospital fear for their lives

  Staff at new Ontario mental health hospital fear for their lives. Read the full story in the Toronto Sun. Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  September 14, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Health and Safety, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Patient volatility has nurses on high alert at psych hospital

  Patient volatility has nurses on high alert at psych hospital. Read the full story in the Toronto Sun. Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  September 14, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Health and Safety, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Ministry of Community and Social Services to begin a comprehensive examination of Community Living Elgin’s financial statements

  Ministry of Community and Social Services to begin a comprehensive examination of Community Living Elgin's financial statements. Read full story in the St. Thomas Times-Journal. Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  September 14, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• OPSEU calling for top-down internal audit at Community Living Elgin

  OPSEU members, picket signs in hand, stood loud and proud in Markham on Wednesday, demanding action from the Minister of Community and Social Services as the public sector union navigates a tense labour dispute with Community Living Elgin's management. Read the full story in the St. Thomas Times-Journal Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  September 8, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• OPSEU radio ads spark strong response from Alberta’s privatized alcohol sector

  A hard-hitting radio advertising campaign by OPSEU that warns against the privatization of alcohol sales in Ontario has provoked a strong response from the head of the organization that represents alcohol retailers in Alberta, CBC Alberta reported today. The full story is here: Ontario union uses drunk-driving stats to attack Alberta OPSEU ad campaign 'shocking…

  Andy Pedersen

  September 2, 2015

  Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Upset by layoffs, Community Living Elgin workers to demonstrate at Queen’s Park today

  With massive layoffs on the horizon caused by a $700,000 shortfall in operating funds, Community Living Elgin workers will travel to Toronto today to protest outside Queen's Park. Read more in the St. Thomas Times-Journal Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  September 2, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Booze in supermarkets unfair to those with alcohol issues: Fiorito

  Toronto Star columnist Joe Fiorito wrote about the dangers of alcohol in supermarkets, and the Star subsequently published a letter to the editor from President Smokey Thomas supporting Fiorito's views.  The original column can be read here in the Star, and Smokey's response was:   Fiorito knows what he is talking about when it comes to…

  Andy Pedersen

  August 28, 2015

  Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Toronto South superjail: another P3 project plagued by defects and cost overruns

  Toronto South Detention Centre was supposed to have been a model corrections' facility. Instead this P3 project has experienced a litany of defects that has caused inmate unrest and stress among staff. Read more in the Globe and Mail Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  August 27, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• American news outlets cover Ontario home care strikebreakers

  The FOX49 television station in Tallahassee, FL picked up the statement released by OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas concerning his upcoming meeting with Health Minister Hoskins.  See the full report here. Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  August 26, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• CTV News: Hundreds attend information picket at Community Living Elgin

  Hundreds attended the informatin picket outside Community Living Elgin's office in St. Thomas. Watch video here. Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  August 21, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• OPSEU members give Deputy Premier Deb Matthews an earful

  OPSEU members catch up to Deputy Premier Deb Matthews and urge her government to return to the bargaining table. {“fid”:”27445″,”view_mode”:”youtube”,”fields”:{“format”:”youtube”,”filename_field[en][0][value]”:”Deb Mathews gets an earful from OPS members”},”type”:”media”,”link_text”:”Deb Mathews gets an earful from OPS members”,”attributes”:{“class”:”file media-element file-youtube”}} Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  August 21, 2015

  Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Owen Sound Family Health Team staff join union

  Almost 70 workers at the Owen Sound Family Health Team are now members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. Read more. Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  August 20, 2015

  Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Kingston youth agency and OPSEU Local 427 headed for conciliation

  With contract talks at an impasse, members of OPSEU Local 427 at St. Lawrence Youth Association in Kingston and management were scheduled to meet today with a conciliator. Read more in the Kingston Whig-Standard Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  August 20, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• Faulty cell locks at Toronto super jail: OPSEU

  The locks on prisoner cells at Toronto South Detention Centre can easily be broken. OPSEU correctional officers reported the problem months ago but the problem persists. Read more at CityNews.ca Related: OPSEU in the News

  Andy Pedersen

  August 20, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• OPSEU members give Minister Naqvi an earful

  OPSEU members caught up recently with Yasir Naqvi, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. They reminded him that the government should return to the bargaining table and negotiate in good faith.  Watch the video.   {“fid”:”27425″,”view_mode”:”youtube”,”fields”:{“format”:”youtube”,”filename_field[en][0][value]”:”Yasir Naqvi gets an earful from OPS members”},”type”:”media”,”link_text”:”Yasir Naqvi gets an earful from OPS members”,”attributes”:{“class”:”file media-element file-youtube”}} Related: OPSEU…

  Andy Pedersen

  August 19, 2015

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• CarePartners unwilling to negotiate with nurses and administrative staff

  After four months on the picket line with fellow nurses and administrative staff, OPSEU Local 294 president Erin Warman is looking for basic fairness from CarePartners at the bargaining table. When the two sides met on August 6, Warman said the employer wasn't willing to negotiate and said their offer would increase working hours and…

  Andy Pedersen

  August 17, 2015

  Bargaining, Media

  OPSEU in the News

• CarePartners Local 294 sit-in gets action from Health Minister Eric Hoskins

  On Friday afternoon OPSEU Executive Board Members Edie Strachan, Sara Labelle, Drew Finucane and Gareth Jones, three members of CarePartners Local 294 and two PYC representatives staged a sit-in in Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins' office in downtown Toronto. They were soon joined outside of Hoskins’ office building by EBMs Ibrahim Bozai, Chrisy Tremblay, and…

  Andy Pedersen

  August 14, 2015

  Campaigns, Media

  OPSEU in the News