Tag: Strike
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Peterborough health unit workers reject management’s final offer
Workers at the Peterborough County-City Health Unit (PCCHU), represented by Local 327 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) have overwhelmingly rejected a final contract offer by their employer. They have asked the conciliator assigned to the contract negotiations to issue a “No Board” report which could set the clock ticking on a possible…
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ParaMed workers to picket Ottawa office Wednesday
OTTAWA – Professional and support staff from ParaMed Home Health Care will be picketing outside the company’s Ottawa office Wednesday in anticipation of a post-Labour day strike. ParaMed’s Renfrew County employees are upset at the company’s lack of willingness to seek a deal before the September 2nd strike deadline. ParaMed has told the workers it…
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CAAT S Strike 2011: Strike Bulletin 5
Issue #5, September 14, 2011 300 support staff march on management HQ in Toronto Under brilliant morning sunlight and hoisting a symbolic negotiating “table” at the head of the line, more than 300 college support workers marched on the headquarters of the College Employer Council in downtown Toronto on Tuesday demanding that management return to…
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OPSEU to College faculty: Vote no to employer offer
TORONTO – The union representing faculty members at 24 Ontario colleges is recommending that their members vote no to an employer offer that the Colleges will conduct. To assist the process, if the vote can be arranged on or before Feb. 12, 2010, OPSEU is prepared to move the strike deadline so that members can…
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CAAT S Strike 2011: Strike Bulletin 4
Issue #4, September 13, 2011 Support staff descends on Toronto today for march and rally outside management offices Hundreds of striking CAAT Support workers are expected to descend on downtown Toronto this morning for a march and rally that will end outside the Bay Street offices of the College Employer Council. Busloads of support staff…
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LCBO workers back strike action if necessary as battle for good jobs ramps up
TORONTO – Unionized workers at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario have given their bargaining team a strong strike mandate to back their fight for good jobs at the provincially-owned retailer. In voting May 20-22, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union voted 93 per cent in favour of strike action if necessary. Voter…
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CAAT S Strike 2011: Strike Bulletin 3
Issue #3, September 9, 2011 Management rejects offer to resume contract talks Despite the best efforts of your bargaining team to re-start contract negotiations, college management has said it has no interest in returning to the bargaining table. On its website and in media interviews Thursday, College Employer Council CEO Don Sinclair said management for…
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Community Living Prince Edward staff draw close to strike deadline
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union representing staff at CLPE is in mediation talks on Friday October 26 in an effort to avert a strike or lockout by the employer. "It is time for this employer to get back to the table with a reasonable offer for these workers. Nobody believes that hiring more managers…
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CAAT S Strike 2011: Strike Bulletin 2
Issue #2, September 7, 2011 Since the walkout started six days ago, college management has been relentless in its view that it is was the union that walked away from the bargaining table and that the union refuses to return to the table and resume negotiations. Wrong on both counts! Let’s set the record straight.…
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CAAT S Strike 2011: Strike Bulletin 1
Issue #1, September 2, 2011 Late in the evening on Wednesday Aug. 31, as the clocked moved toward a midnight strike deadline, negotia- tors for management told us ‘this was it.’ They weren’t prepared to move a step closer to a settlement. Left behind on the bargaining table were several of our items that needed…
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Questions and answers about the April 8-9, 2013 strike vote by Liquor Board members
How will the vote be conducted? The vote must be by secret ballot. Who can vote? All employees in the bargaining unit(s) represented by OPSEU are eligible to vote. That includes all OPSEU members and OPSEU non-members, including full-time, part-time, casual, seasonal, fixed term employees. It includes those who have not signed union cards. Members…
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2013 Bargaining Strike Vote News Alert 7
Last chance to cast strike vote today Today is the last day for members of OPSEU's liquor board employee's division to cast their vote in favour of giving your bargaining team a mandate to call for job action in the event that contract negotiations with the LCBO break down. The two sides are scheduled to…
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2013 Bargaining Strike Vote News Alert 6
Strike voting starts today! The moment has arrived for OPSEU liquor board employees to have their say. Click here to download Voting begins today and continues tomorrow for LBED members to provide their bargaining team with an overwhelming sign of support by casting a ballot in favour of giving our team a mandate to call…
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2013 Bargaining Strike Vote News Alert 5
LCBO contract "offer" provides nothing for permanent, full-time staff While the LCBO's so-called contract "offer" provides little in the way of improvements for casuals, seasonals, fixed-term and PPTs, there is another large classification of employees who, similarly, are being offered little more than bones: permanent, full-time (PFT) workers. As of September 2012, there were 2,683…
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2013 Bargaining Strike Vote News Alert 4
Tele Town Hall draws 3,200 callers! Close to 3,200 liquor board employees — almost half the total LBED membership — participated yesterday evening and this morning in a telephone town hall meeting that organizers described as an overwhelming success. "I've been involved in several of these now and I will say this ranked among the…
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2013 Bargaining Strike Vote News Alert 3
Your invitation to participate in a Tele-Town Hall The LCBO earns a profit of $200,000 per unionized employee. It can afford better than a four-year wage freeze, concessions, and a refusal to meet the needs of our permanent, casual, fixed term, PPTs and seasonal workers. That's why your bargaining team has decided to call a…
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2013 Bargaining Strike Vote News Alert 2
LCBO has casuals in its contract crosshairs It's clear that no classification of liquor board employees will escape the cutbacks, freezes and concessions that the LCBO has proposed in its so-called contract "offer." Whether you work at head office, in logistics or as a customer service rep, the LCBO wants to steal back the gains…
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Carleton University Campus Safety workers forced to strike
Campus Safety workers at Ottawa's Carleton University are on strike as of 12:01 Monday morning, March 10, 2014. "Our members are deeply disappointed that we were not able to reach an agreement with Carleton University," said OPSEU Negotiator, Nelson Ross Laguna. "Nobody wants a strike," said Ross Laguna, "but we will do what it takes…
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2013 Bargaining Strike Vote News Alert 1
A message from OPSEU President Smokey Thomas Greetings, Members of the Liquor Board Employees Division On March 22, and as a result of the LCBO's apparent unwillingness to negotiate in a serious manner a new collective agreement, your bargaining team unanimously agreed to call for a strike vote. The team had little choice. The contract…
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CAAT S Strike 2011: Strike Bulletin 8
Issue #8, September 16, 2011 College workers modify demands to restart contract talks (TORONTO) – The union representing striking community college support workers has substantially modified its demands in a bid to resume negotiations in the two-week old job action. The bargaining team representing more than 8,000 support workers at 24 colleges across Ontario said…