Tag: Strike
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Dozens picket Pathstone Mental Health in Niagara region in support of children’s mental health workers
Dozens of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 241 children’s mental health workers facing a possible lockout as early as February 22 held an info picket earlier this week outside two Pathstone Mental Health locations to demand a fair contract for workers who provide mental health services for kids and families across Niagara region. Their message to Pathstone management…
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Info picket – Tell Pathstone Mental Health: Kids’ mental health is worth fighting for!
More than 100 children’s mental health workers across Niagara region could be locked out by their employer, Pathstone Mental Health, as early as February 22, 2025. Join our information pickets in St. Catharines and Welland on February 12! Pathstone workers from OPSEU/SEFPO local 214 will be holding an information picket at two Pathstone locations to…
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College strike narrowly averted, faculty turn focus to root causes: “Ford is gambling away Ontario’s future.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – After more than six months of negotiations, the bargaining team representing over 15,000 college faculty across Ontario signed a Memorandum of Agreement today with significant benefit gains – particularly for their most precarious members, making up the majority of the workforce. While the two sides otherwise remain at an…
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College faculty will enter legal strike position in new year: “The college system is crumbling – we can’t sit back and let its failed stewards bulldoze education.”
TORONTO, ON – With no real progress towards a contract which improves the working lives of college faculty across Ontario, the faculty bargaining team requested a “no board” report this morning. As 2024 draws to an end, Ontario college faculty will enter a legal position to call for labour action in the new year. “Our…
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Riding a record turnout, College Faculty deliver historic strike mandate with overwhelming “yes” vote
TORONTO, ON – Faculty across Ontario’s 24 public colleges, represented by OPSEU/SEFPO, have delivered a historic strike mandate to their bargaining team, sending a strong message that workers will not tolerate the employer’s serious concessions taking precedence over a fair contract which invests in quality education. On Friday, October 18th, college faculty concluded a province-wide…
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College Faculty Bargaining Update: Vote YES on October 15-17
As you enter a well-deserved weekend of rest with your loved ones and friends, here is our final bargaining bulletin before the upcoming strike mandate vote from October 15-17. Despite our concerns with the CEC’s inconsistent commitment to bargaining, their use of captive audience messaging, and the serious concessions they have tabled, we have entered…
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Student and Faculty Futures, Together: Responding to Student Concerns About Potential Strike Action
Printable PDF As the workers in college classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and offices working directly with students, we know that our working conditions are student learning conditions. The idea of labour action can be stressful for students – it’s important that we respond to student concerns, demystify strike mandate votes/strikes, and bring them on side as…
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Over 15,000 Ontario college faculty to take strike mandate vote October 15-17: “We’re prioritizing quality education in the fight for student and faculty futures.”
TORONTO – Without a renewal agreement in hand on the first day of contract expiry, over 15,000 college faculty – including full-time and partial-load professors and instructors, counsellors, and librarians – will hold a strike mandate vote between October 15th and 17th, authorizing labour action should a fair agreement fail to be reached. The OPSEU/SEFPO…
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College Faculty Strike Vote 2024: Frequently Asked Questions
College Faculty Strike Vote 2024: October 15-17 Starting Tuesday, October 15th at noon through to Thursday, October 17th at 3:00 p.m., College Faculty will be taking a province-wide strike vote. The vote will be held online and by phone. Vote YES for student and faculty futures, vote YES for quality education! Why are we taking…
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College Faculty conciliation and strike mandate vote FAQs
Printable PDF What is “conciliation”? “Conciliation” occurs when one or both bargaining parties believe that a third party can move negotiations forward. At any point during negotiations, Ontario’s Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (CCBA) allows OPSEU/SEFPO or the College Employer Council (CEC) to request neutral third-party assistance to help resolve their differences. A request for conciliation…
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LifeLabs workers in GTA and Kitchener poised to strike if deal not reached by Saturday
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO – Thousands of Ontarians across the province rely on LifeLabs facilities for timely and dependable health care results – brokered through the labour of dependable workers. Now, those very workers across the Greater Toronto Area and Kitchener may walk off the job as soon as Saturday over the lack of dependable…
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Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa workers ratify new contract, vow to continue the fight against ongoing cuts
Ottawa, ON – After more than three weeks on strike, Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa (CASO) workers ratified a new agreement with the agency yesterday – but workers say that the fight is far from over. “The decision to go out was not one we made easily, but workers were faced with an impossible choice,”…
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A response to Employer misinformation: the crisis in child welfare cannot be solved with more cuts
On July 22, the Executive Director of the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa (CASO), Kelly Raymond – along with its Board’s Chair, Deborah Tunis – published a letter with choice reflections not just about the state of child welfare, but implicit comments on the ongoing strike at the agency. We don’t bargain in the media –…
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Letter from Ontario’s former Child Advocate, Irwin Elman: “The strike at the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa is an SOS: an act of courage.”
We are in unprecedented times in Ontario. When OPSEU/SEFPO Local 454, representing Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa workers, held a press conference on June 18th, 2024 with management of the agency announcing the hard truth that the organization was at “a tipping point,” it became publicly clear just how dangerous the unprecedented times are. We…
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LCBO Workers reach tentative settlement that protects jobs and public revenues
Toronto / Saturday, July 20, 2024 – LCBO workers were forced to go on strike to protect public revenues and fight against the Premier’s expensive alcohol everywhere plan. We have now reached a tentative settlement that is a win for workers and Ontarians. The details were communicated to the OPSEU/SEFPO members Friday evening, and a…
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Rally tomorrow with Children’s Aid Society Ottawa workers on strike!
Members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 454, representing over 320 workers at the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa, entered their second week on strike – and they are taking the fight to the doorsteps of the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services.
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LCBO workers return to bargaining focused on protecting good jobs and public revenues
Toronto – On the 13th day of their historic, first-ever strike, LCBO workers will return to the bargaining table today with their key demands top of mind: protecting thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions in public revenues generated by the LCBO annually. On July 4th, the employer handed the bargaining team an insulting offer…
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LCBO workers to Doug Ford: Get the LCBO back to the bargaining table ready to bargain a deal that protects jobs and public revenues!
Toronto, July 15, 2024 / Yesterday, the LCBO announced that it was reversing its decision to try and open select stores 3 days per week, saying that all stores will now remain closed for the duration of the strike. Today, Doug Ford announced the accelerated expansion of alcohol sales at grocery stores. Doug Ford has…
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Rally with CAS Ottawa workers on strike!
Members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 454, representing over 320 workers at the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa, entered their second week on strike – and they are taking the fight to the doorsteps of the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services. Join workers in Ottawa this Thursday morning as they challenge the province’s callous approach…