Tag: Policy Paper
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Balancing the Books: Access, Pathways, and Co-Governance as Keys to a New College Funding Formula
A submission to the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development’s consultation on College Funding Model Reform Introduction Next year is the 50th anniversary of Ontario’s network of public colleges. The 24 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology were established to increase access to post-secondary education by addressing the needs of learners not traditionally served…
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Funding the Future: Key recommendations for an evolving college system
A submission by OPSEU’s CAAT-Support Division to the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development’s consultation on College Funding Model Reform Introduction “Community colleges are the hearts of Ontario’s communities. Properly funded, they can deepen social and economic development, while encouraging academic achievement and providing quality employment.” Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President, OPSEU When Ontario’s applied…
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OPSEU comments on changes to Election Finances Act
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas made the following remarks to the Standing Committee on General Government at Queen’s Park on Tuesday, June 7 regarding Bill 201, An Act to amend the Election Finances Act and the Taxation Act, 2007. Good evening. I’m Warren (Smokey) Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. With me…
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OPSEU comments on Bill 181
“Vigorously democratic” Remarks by OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs re: Bill 181, the Municipal Elections Modernization Act, 2016 May 12, 2016, 9:00 a.m., Queen’s Park, Toronto Good morning, I’m Smokey Thomas, President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. With me today is Clarke Eaton, Special…
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Get “big money” out of municipal elections: Thomas
OPSEU supports getting “big money” out of municipal elections, the President of OPSEU told a legislative committee May 12. “Let me say at the outset that we wholeheartedly support eliminating the influence of big money on municipal elections,” Thomas told the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs. “If there is any organization in this…
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Responding to PTSD: OPSEU’s take on Bill 163
Responding to PTSD by supporting our first responders A submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy from the Ontario Public Service Employees Union regarding Bill 163, the Supporting Ontario’s First Responders Act Introduction The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) is pleased to offer this submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy in…
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Funding the need: OPSEU’s position on child protection reform
Introduction A turning point for child protection reform Following the release of the annual Auditor General’s Report in December 2015, the Premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne, directed the Minister of Children and Youth Services (MCYS), Tracy MacCharles, to further reform the child protection system. Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk highlighted systemic problems with child protection standards,…
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OPSEU’s response to the Patients First discussion paper
OPSEU's response to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s discussion paper Patients First, A Proposal to Strengthen Patient-Centred Health Care in Ontario, can be found here.
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Hospital Support members to budget committee: stop the cuts!
On February 2, the OPSEU Hospital Support Executive made a submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs on behalf of all members who work in the hospital support sector. Hospital support workers are the backbone of hospitals and should be considered as key partners in delivering 21st century medicine. In our brief,…
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Closing the Gender Wage Gap: A frontline public sector perspective
A submission to the Gender Wage Gap Strategy Steering Committee, Ontario Ministry of Labour, from the Ontario Public Service Employees Union [1] No matter how it is measured – by the year, by the week, or by the hour – average incomes for women are substantially lower than those of men.[3],[5] In the past few…
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Region 1 RVP Ron Elliot addresses Changing Workplaces Review
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has launched a province-wide review of the Ontario Labour Relations Act and the Employment Standards Act, the main provincial laws that govern the operation of unions and set basic standards for all workplaces, respectively. The Changing Workplaces Review is holding public consultations to discuss how the OLRA and the ESA…
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Remarks to the Changing Workplaces Review by Ron Elliot, OPSEU Region 1 Vice-President
Download .pdf London, Ontario, July 8, 2015 Good morning, my name is Ron Elliot. I’m the regional vice-president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union for southwestern Ontario. Welcome to OPSEU Region One! In my day job I’m an Occupational Health and Safety Officer for the Ontario Ministry of Labour. I’ve been working at it…
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Pre-budget presentation by OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs
Remarks by Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President, Ontario Public Service Employees Union, for a presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs re: the 2015-16 Ontario Budget Committee Room 151, Main Legislative Building, Queen's Park, Toronto, January 29, 2015, 9:30 a.m. Good morning. I’m Smokey Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union.…
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Time to rein in LCBO agency stores program, OPSEU tells Clark
TORONTO – The best way to increase the LCBO’s dividend to government without increasing the social harm caused by alcohol is to rein in the LCBO’s Agency Stores Program, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says. OPSEU made the point Monday when President Warren (Smokey) Thomas and members of the union’s Liquor Board Employees Division…
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A Report to the Premier’s Advisory Council on Government Assets, Ed Clark, Chair
[1] came into being because the two extreme alternatives that preceded it had failed so dismally. The first, the unregulated market, created so many domestic and social problems that it triggered a powerful temperance movement across North America, mostly led by women, who suffered “from the loss of income consumed in saloons, and from domestic…
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Submission to the Ministry of Finance on pension discussion paper
Securing our Retirement Future November 2010 OPSEU represents over 125,000 workers in Ontario"s direct and broader public service. Our members work in the Ontario Public Service; in Ontario’s community colleges, universities and boards of education; in Ontario’s liquor stores; in Ontario hospitals, ambulance services, home care and community care agencies, community health centres and public…