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Media across Northern Ontario reported that medical education faculty and professional staff at NOSM University in Thunder Bay and Sudbury voted 100% in favour of a strike mandate in their negotiations with the university. The faculty and professional staff are represented by the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University Faculty and Staff Association (NUFSA), members...

The North Bay Nugget and KenoraOnline reported on OPSEU/SEFPO’s corrections, youth justice, and probation and parole members’ “Respect” action, calling out the Ontario government’s disrespectful delay tactics in bargaining. The North Bay Nugget interviewed Correctional Bargaining Team chair Janet Laverty, and Scott McIntyre, bargaining team member. Laverty said workers are frustrated at the employer delaying...

OPSEU/SEFPO, along with several other unions, spent years warning the Ministry of the Attorney General that closing courthouses in Scarborough, Etobicoke, and North York and consolidating justice services at the New Toronto Courthouse (NTC) in the downtown core would cause hardship for staff and access to justice issues for many marginalized people involved in the...