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Important updates on Bill-135, wage reopener negotiations and your next round of bargaining
I wanted to reach out to provide an update on your current and upcoming bargaining…
Immediate solutions to hospital crisis lie in public system, not private: OPSEU/SEFPO Hospital Professionals
TORONTO – Hospital professionals represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) are calling…
OPSEU/SEFPO will not allow the Ford government to destroy public health care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 18, 2022 TORONTO – OPSEU/SEFPO leaders have vowed that the tens of…
Ontario Health Coalition news conference livestream on health care privatization: August 16
Update: The date has been changed to August 16th. The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) is…
OPSEU/SEFPO calls on government to address staffing problems across health care sector
Toronto – OPSEU/SEFPO is calling on the government to create a long-term plan for addressing…
OPSEU/SEFPO demands meeting with Premier to discuss retention bonuses promised to nurses
Toronto – OPSEU/SEFPO wants to meet with Premier Doug Ford to discuss a late Friday…
OPSEU/SEFPO joins Ontario Health Coalition call to fix health care staffing crisis
This morning, OPSEU/SEFPO called on the Ford government to take immediate steps to fix the…
Thomas: Message to the OHA -- recovery will take action, not just talk
The following Op Ed by OPSEU/SEFPO President Warren (Smokey) Thomas was published in the Toronto…
OPSEU/SEFPO lauds college funding for new PSWs as a ‘good first step’
Toronto – OPSEU/SEFPO President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says Ontario’s plan to invest millions for PSW…
The Saturday Debate: Should private long-term care be abolished? Yes.
The following Op-Ed by OPSEU/SEFPO President Warren (Smokey) Thomas was published today in the Toronto…
Exhausted PSWs need help. Regulation is the first step
By Laura Bulmer Imagine for a moment that personal support workers were to walk off…
OPSEU joins protest again Bill 195
Union workers in Sault Saint Marie, including OPSEU members made the pages of the Sault…
Overdose deaths on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic
Monday, August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day, is a chance to raise awareness of the…
Dear OPSEU member and healthcare worker: we continue to fight for pandemic pay
June 11 marked the three-month anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the…
Thunder Bay healthcare workers demand pandemic pay
OPSEU Local 715 holds rally and makes video calling for equity.
Letter to Premier Ford: Expand pandemic pay
Dear Premier Ford, Since first announcing pandemic pay for frontline healthcare professionals in late April,…
Meet the OPSEU/SEFPO Health Care Divisional Council Executive Committee
Lucy A Morton lucyamorton@rogers.com
Sector 17- Community Health Care Professionals
Joel Usher Joelxusher@gmail.com
Sector 1- Ambulance
Jessica Zitman jessica.zitman@hotmail.ca
Sector 8- Long Term Care
Sara Labelle sassa26_ca2003@yahoo.ca
Sector 10- Hospital Professionals
Jill McIllwraith georgiajill@hotmail.com
Sector 11- Hospital Support
Ed Arvelin eddyarvelin720@gmail.com
Sector 18- Mental Health
Geoffrey Cain local160president@gmail.com
Sector 19- CBS & Diagnostics
