Tag: Pay equity
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CMHA Cochrane-Timiskaming: another pay equity victory
Timmins – Some 170 workers with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Cochrane-Timiskaming will receive pay equity adjustments – 23 years after a pay equity plan was first negotiated in 1994. The settlement comes just a month after Local 386 at Community Living Newmarket/Aurora received retroactive pay equity payments going back to 2010. OPSEU Local…
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OPSEU members out in full force for Equal Pay Day
OPSEU members in developmental services came out in full force Tuesday for the Equal Pay Day rally at Queen’s Park. Members helped lead leafleting action on all four corners of University Ave. and College St. OPSEU Region 3 Vice-President Sara Labelle, Developmental Services sector chair Erin Smith-Rice, and Indigenous mobilizer Crystal Sinclair all delivered rousing…
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Fighting for a Happy Equal Pay Day
Dear friends: Well, it’s Equal Pay Day. We wish today could be a happier one, where we all celebrate the success of finally closing the gender wage gap in Ontario. But obviously, that’s not what today is about. The gender wage gap persists, and it does for so many reasons. Sure, we have laws in…
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OPSEU members join Equal Pay Day rally
Toronto – Members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) who work in developmental services across Ontario will be in Toronto this afternoon to join the Equal Pay Coalition’s Equal Pay Day rally. “We will not break through the glass ceiling as one woman rising up,” said Sara Labelle, OPSEU Region 3 Vice-President and…
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Pay equity: a Q&A
30 Years and still waiting: An OPSEU developmental services plan to achieve proxy pay equity OPSEU is taking the fight for pay equity to the public with a sector-wide campaign. Our slogan, “Pay equity now! 30 years and still waiting” perfectly captures how fed up we all are that pay equity still isn’t a reality…
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Join the campaign!
Please find below the petition asking Premier Wynne to step up and start funding and enforcing pay equity. You will also see a sample email that you can send to your MPP once you have signed the petition. It tells them you’ve done so, and encourages them to take a stand on pay equity, too. Petition…
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Pay equity: Don’t complete that survey
OPSEU members who receive a link to a questionnaire from Ontario’s Pay Equity Commissioner should not complete it, OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says. “I just found out today that the Commissioner, Emanuela Heyninck, has sent out a survey to many union locals and individual union members on the subject of pay equity,” he said.…
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Union slams ‘sexist, inaccurate’ portrayal of Tillsonburg pay equity win
Tillsonburg – The union representing workers at Community Living Tillsonburg (CLT) is criticizing a local media outlet for its “sexist and inaccurate” report on a recent pay equity win there. The agency agreed to pay the six years of pay equity adjustments it owed to 232 employees after the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) threatened…
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Tillsonburg: OPSEU claims a victory in pay equity fight
After being threatened by OPSEU with legal action, Community Living Tillsonburg will finally comply with the Pay Equity Act, and staff wages will jump by $1.60 an hour for 2017 as a result. Read the full story here. Related: OPSEU in the News
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OPSEU President demands Premier take action on pay equity
Toronto – Following Community Living Tillsonburg’s earlier refusal to make pay equity payments as required by the law, the union representing workers in the developmental services across the province is ramping up its fight to achieve pay equity. In a strongly-worded letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) President Warren (Smokey) Thomas…
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Thomas to Wynne: Enforce and fund pay equity now
The letter below was sent by OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas to Premier Kathleen Wynne. In it, the President urges the Premier to start funding pay equity in developmental services. February 16, 2017 Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen's Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Re: Your duty to enforce pay equity in the…
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Child care workers matter!
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas issued the following statement today to mark Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. It’s 2016. So why we are still making the case for quality, universal childcare? Today marks the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care’s Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. It’s a…
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Wynne’s decisions driving down women’s wages in Ontario
In a guest column in the Toronto Sun, OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas urges the premier to take action now and stop driving the gender wage gap wider in the public sector by cutting women’s wages. Read the full column in the Toronto Sun.
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On Equal Pay Day, how about card-check for women, too?
Toronto – It should be just as easy for a woman to join a union as it is for a man, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said today. “Under Ontario law, the only workers who can unionize using the fastest and fairest method are the workers in the most male-dominated sector…
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It’s 2016: Close the Gender Pay Gap!
Equal Pay Day is marked on April 19 in Ontario. This is because with a 30 per cent gap in income, women on average need to work three-and-a-half months into the new year to earn what men do by December 31 of the previous year. "The cost of the wage gap to women is staggering.…
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Members rally for women’s wages
A boisterous throng of OPSEU members and friends had a message for Kathleen Wynne this week: Fix the gender wage gap. Local 586 President Jessika Sikora turned up the volume on gender wage parity. Ontario’s wage gap is 31 per cent – and even higher for Indigenous women, racialized women and women with disabilities. On…