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- July 20, 2022
Howard A. Doughty, Steward, Local 560 It’s time to dig deeper into the archives. Long ago, I got my first formal schooling in women’s studies in a course I took with Dr. Dorothy Smith at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Dorothy passed away just shy of her 96th birthday, on June 3, 2022....
- July 8, 2022
We have received arbitrator William Kaplan’s interest arbitration award. Read the award. Read the agreed-to items from bargaining: Items-in-Agreement-OPSEU-SEFPO-and-the-Participating-Hospitals-April-29-2022.pdf Items-in-Agreement-OPSEU-SEFPO-and-the-Participating-Hospitals-May-12-2022.pdf A summary of the award and the agreed-to items will follow shortly, along with details for information sessions that will be held next week. In solidarity, Your HPD bargaining team: Sandi Blancher (Chair) Betty Palmieri...
- July 6, 2022
Howard A. Doughty, Steward, Local 560 As an OPSEU/SEFPO activist for more than 50 years and a local union office-holder for more than 40, I’ve taken my share of attacks by management and sometimes even from co-workers with opinions different from mine. The result? A thick, almost impenetrable, skin though not (I hope) a wholly...