Madawaska Valley Association for Community Living

Barry's Bay, Ontario – Union members at the Madawaska Valley Association for Community Living (MVACL) are “fired up and ready” to head back to the bargaining table March 1. The members of Local 473 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) handed their bargaining team a 98 per cent strike vote this month. The...

Provincial framework for local negotiations announced OPSEU has called it a first step toward creating stability for developmental services workers and the people they support. It's a provincial framework for implementing wage increases and for resolving long-term and structural problems in the sector. Wage increase funds promised by the Ontario Government for frontline workers will...

(Toronto) – Recommendations agreed to by unions and employers in Ontario’s developmental services sector were endorsed over the weekend by the Ministry of Community and Social Services. It’s the first step toward creating desperately-needed stability for workers and the people they support, said the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). “We are happy to announce...