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Join retirement home workers from OPSEU/SEFPO Local 332 in Alliston, Ontario as they demand a living wage from Aspira Kingsmere Retirement Living – owned by for-profit giant Sienna Senior Living, which charges residents thousands per month and raked in more than three quarters of a billion dollars in revenue in 2023. Date: Wednesday, October 23,...

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 to the...

Ontario can’t afford a healthcare system where the quality of care is determined by the depth of our pockets. On May 30th, thousands of trade unionists across the province gathered to send a powerful message that healthcare is not for-profit, with mass protests organized by the Ontario Health Coalition in Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder...

As Ford continues to undermine and underfund the public services our communities rely on, workers and the communities they serve are paying the price. OPSEU/SEFPO members, labour advocates, and citizens are coming together in Peterborough, Port Hope, and Lindsay next week to tell their MPPs that enough is enough: Ontario needs adequately funded public services now!...

OPSEU/SEFPO members are fighting back. This is our biggest convention yet and we’re hitting the streets to stand up for public services. When: Friday April 26 at 12:30pm Where: Members will gather outside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre then march through the streets of downtown Toronto! Who: OPSEU/SEFPO members and community & labour allies Right now,...

SUDBURY, ON, January 29, 2024 – Workers at Sudbury’s MyHealth Centre provide diagnostic imaging services, including nuclear medicine, biopsy, ultrasound, mammography, and bone mineral density and X-ray services. The clinic is the only unionized clinic out of 48 MyHealth locations in Ontario. Right now, workers at the clinic, members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 668, are bargaining...

OPSEU/SEFPO members working in health care – including those from Locals 720 and 715 – rallied today at St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay to oppose the Ford government’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profit clinics. The event was part of joint union anti-privatization campaign organized by a coalition of Ontario’s...

We are saying Enough is Enough! There is no space for hate in Ontario. On October 21st, the ultra-conservative right have once again planned nationwide events to protest teaching 2SLGBTQIA+ content in schools under the guise of protecting children. We know that far from protecting students this will hurt them in so many ways due...

On Friday, October 27th, health care workers in Thunder Bay are rallying against the Ford government’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profit clinics. Health care workers are standing up for patient care, better working conditions, and to protect public health care for all. Join us at St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder...

On the Friday before Thanksgiving, LCBO workers in Oshawa and Windsor showed up outside their stores to thank customers for supporting their local stores and the workers who keep them running. The collective agreement between the LCBO and OPSEU/SEFPO expires on March 31, 2024. In the coming months, LBED members are mobilizing in their workplaces...

On Wednesday, September 20th, groups from the far right are planning events in Ontario and across Canada opposing the teaching of 2SLGBTQIA+ content in schools. They’re framing it as “protecting children.” But this has nothing to do with protecting children. Quite the opposite – this is about fostering hate, encouraging anti-2SLGBTQIA+ discrimination and causing harm...

Support Canadian Blood Services workers fighting for fair contracts, improved grievance procedures, stable posting and filling of permanent full-time jobs, and an end to the privatization of plasma collection! WHERE: CBS 100 Parkshore Dr. Brampton, ON L6T 5M1 WHEN: Wednesday, May 24  11 a.m. – 1 p.m. MORE INFO: Alberto Alvaro OPSEU/SEFPO Local 200 President...

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