Ministry of Finance

The provincial government has signed another quick deal giving thousands of civil servants a 7.5-per-cent raise over four years, prompting accusations the Liberals are buying labour peace for next June’s election. Read the full story on the website of the Toronto Star. Related: OPSEU in the News

The two-step election process to elect the 2017 OPS bargaining teams began on Saturday, May 27. As a result of amendments to the Crown Employees Collective Bargaining Act, OPSEU bargaining teams negotiate two separate, stand-alone collective agreements: one for the Unified bargaining unit and one for the Correctional bargaining unit. Accordingly, two separate regional bargaining...

The OPSEU collective agreement in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) expires on December 31, 2017. In preparation for bargaining, all OPSEU members in the OPS are invited to complete one of two 2017 demand-set surveys online. The survey will be live from February 23 to March 13, 2017. As a result of recent amendments to...

Thousands of OPSEU members took part in four recent telephone town halls for workers in the Ontario Public Service (OPS). Two were held on February 9 for members of the Correctional Bargaining Unit. It will be bargaining for a new standalone collective agreement, to be effective January 1, 2018. Two more town halls took place...

On Saturday, October 29, OPSEU delegates to the 2016 Ontario Public Service divisional meetings elected the members of their Ministry Employee-Employer Relations Committees (MERCs) for the 2016‑18 term. The following 163 members were elected by delegates from their ministries: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs ERC Mélanie Bégin, co-chair, Local 506 Marcus Rangai, vice...

Some 600 OPSEU members from 27 ministries were in Toronto this weekend to elect leadership teams and chart the way forward for the union in the Ontario Public Service (OPS). 600 members of the Ontario Public Service meet for their 2016 divisionals President Warren (Smokey) Thomas got the ball rolling with a firebrand talk focused...

OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas has sent the letter below to all OPSEU members in the OPSEU Pension Trust pension plan. Action memo To: All OPSEU members in the OPSEU Pension Trust pension plan From: Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President Date: October 25, 2016 Re: OPSEU to file for interim relief from retiree benefit changes if...

Appendix 40 Advanced Direct Assignment (ADA): Wave 1- April 7 to 21 is your 10 day Window Taxing Times : A newsletter for OPSEU members working for the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Revenue For Wave 1 members (whose positions transfer to CRA November 25, 2010) the 10-day window to exercise your Appendix...

Taxing Times: A newsletter for OPSEU members working for the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Revenue The OPSEU COR members continue to meet with the employer every other week to receive updates about the ongoing roll out of the processes whereby documents are being prepared and distributed to assist our members in getting...

A newsletter for OPSEU members working for the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Revenue As a result of a decision issued by the Grievance Settlement Board (GSB), we have successfully argued that every year of service to a maximum of 26 weeks will count towards the calculation of termination pay for staff who...

Human Resources Agreement reached for HST transition Taxing Times : A newsletter for OPSEU members working for the Ministry of Finance After originally being advised that the Human Resources Agreement (HRA) would be concluded almost four months ago, the Ministry of Revenue and Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) have released the HRA for the transfer of...

Taxing Times A newsletter for OPSEU members working for the Ministry of Finance As part of the divestment of the provincial Retail Sales Tax to the federal government, now known as the Harmonized Sales Tax, many jobs that were previously in the OPS will disappear.  Staff will be looking for new opportunities, either inside the...