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- March 18, 2024
OPSEU/SEFPO is committed to providing temporary, on-site child care to our members with child care responsibilities as a key way of removing structural and systemic barriers faced by members to full participation in the union. To support these members, we have updated our organizational policies and procedures, and created a Child Care Handbook that includes...
- March 15, 2024
Bargaining Update #1: March 15, 2024 Bargaining update meeting: Wednesday, March 20 After an incredibly powerful first week of bargaining, your LBED Bargaining Team wants the opportunity to share an update with all LBED members directly via an online meeting! We’ll let you know what happened at the bargaining table on March 13-14, and report...
- March 15, 2024
LCBO workers across Ontario held an incredibly successful LCBO Day of Action on March 12th, the day before their first bargaining date for their next contract on March 13th. They put the Ford government and their employer on notice that LCBO workers are fighting back against the government’s sell-off of the LCBO. The workers certainly...
- March 15, 2024
With no wage offer on the table, more than 400 cultural workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) are facing an imminent strike. These workers, members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 535, ensure there is art and programming for public access. They literally keep the gallery lights on and doors open. As public sector workers, AGO staffers were left behind during...
- March 15, 2024
TORONTO, March 12, 2024 – OPTrust today released its 2023 Funded Status Report, People. Purpose. Pensions., which details the Plan’s financial results and funded status. In 2023, OPTrust remained fully funded for the 15th consecutive year and achieved a net investment return of 5.3 per cent. Over the past 10 years, the Plan’s average net investment...
- March 14, 2024
Toronto Blue Jays vs Los Angeles Dodgers April 26 at 7 p.m. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way Deadline to buy: Friday, March 29, 2024 To reserve your tickets, please send an email to bluejaysgame@opseu.org $49 per ticket Section 531 and 532 Pick up at Registration at Convention (paper tickets) Downloadable event flyer
- March 14, 2024
For Immediate Release March 14, 2024 TORONTO – After Premier Doug Ford’s misleading comments yesterday about his government’s ongoing privatization of the LCBO, OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick is standing with LCBO workers to set the record straight. “Tuesday’s LCBO Day of Action was organized by LCBO workers who are first-hand witnesses to the sell-off of...
- March 12, 2024
Toronto – LCBO employees represented by OPSEU/SEFPO rallied in 11 cities across Ontario this morning, unfurling giant banners at the constituency offices of Ford government MPPs and an Ontario government office with the signatures of almost 7,000 LCBO workers. The signatures were from petitions signed by the employees, demanding a stop to the sell-off of...
- March 11, 2024
Liquor Board Employees Division (LBED) members across Ontario have a very busy week ahead! This past weekend, your LBED Bargaining Team achieved an arbitrated award for the past three years of unconstitutional wage restraints imposed by the now-repealed Bill 124. After months of organizing and participation, LCBO workers across the province are now ready to...
- March 8, 2024
Are you a resident, family member or staff at Aspira Kingsmere Retirement Living (owned by Sienna Senior Living) in Alliston, Ontario? Are you concerned about how the quality of care at Kingsmere is affected by staff shortages? Join us for a Town Hall meeting and roast beef lunch hosted by the Executive of OPSEU/SEFPO Local...
- March 8, 2024
With the staffing and funding crisis that continues in transfer-payment agency youth centres across the province, OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick has brought the plight of two Northern youth centres whose staff are represented by OPSEU/SEFPO to the attention of the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services. President Hornick urged MCCSS to increase the base...
- March 8, 2024
On Monday, February 26, OPSEU/SEFPO forest firefighter and Local 703 VP Noah Freedman and OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick spoke at a press conference at Queen’s Park calling for immediate government action to fix the health and safety crisis for Ontario’s forest firefighters before the imminent start of the 2024 wildfire season. They were joined by...
- March 7, 2024
More than 400 workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) may be on strike as of 12:01 a.m. on Monday, March 25th. The AGO prides itself as a world-class arts institution tasked with public delivery of the arts, but that can’t come at the cost of peoples’ livelihood. The gallery is increasingly drawing on...
- March 7, 2024
A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) found that the public sector is the key to reducing income inequality in the workplace. First and foremost, discrimination is alive and thriving in Canada. Wage discrimination exists between men and women and between immigrants and Canadian-born workers. In the private sector however, women...
- March 6, 2024
LCBO members of OPSEU/SEFPO have worked incredibly hard over the last few months building worker power and momentum for their upcoming round of bargaining, which starts on March 13. Nearly 7,000 LCBO workers have signed a petition to show they’re ready to stand up and stop the Ford government’s sell-off of the LCBO and keep...