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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....

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...

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...