As we come to the end of the year, we wanted to send a message of solidarity and gratitude to all members of OPSEU/SEFPO.
This year OPSEU/SEFPO have faced tremendous challenges and seized incredible opportunities, showing great solidarity along the way.
From dancing on the line in freezing Timiskaming-Cochrane during a lock-out, to rainy rallies in Regent Park, to ice cream trucks on the line during Ford’s Dry Summer and the historic LCBO strike, our members helped make this a year for workers in Ontario.
We continue to fight through every channel available to us to improve the lives of working people and protect public services in this province: challenging unfair practices in workplaces and anti-worker legislation; bargaining collectively and in new coordinated ways to achieve better and more inclusive contracts and sectoral change; and seizing new opportunities to strengthen solidarity by organizing and building member leadership across our entire union.
Looking ahead to 2025, we will be rising together to meet the moment and fight for the Ontario we want to live and work in. Members in every single sector across our union will be headed into bargaining and other exciting campaigns over the course of the next year.
Faced with both a provincial and federal election, we are organizing, coordinating, and working together with our labour and community allies to build a powerful movement to fight back. A fight to stop the deadly cuts to services in our communities, to win wage increases that will raise the floor across the entire public service, and to secure funding to protect our services for years to come.
We are ready to fight for the Ontario we want – the Ontario we believe in: one with strong public services for our communities and good jobs.
Together, we are ready to fight and build the future we want. And we are doing it strategically, acting collaboratively, building our collective power, and bringing compassion and empathy to our interactions in solidarity.
We wish everyone a great year-end season, with much joy and rest.
In solidarity,
JP and Laurie