Notice

OPSEU/SEFPO proudly represents 10,000 provincial correctional staff in adult correctional facilities, youth centres, adult probation and parole offices, and youth probation offices across the province. They work for the Ministry of the Solicitor General (Corrections) and the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (Youth Justice). Every year, starting on the first Monday of May,...

Every year on April 28, OPSEU/SEFPO joins our fellow workers in the labour movement to observe the National Day of Mourning for workers who have been killed, injured or made ill at work. As trade unionists, we organize in our workplaces to prevent accidents, injuries and illnesses of all kinds that are caused by our...

Central Bargaining: Is it right for you? As OPSEU/SEFPO Hospital Support workers in workplaces across the province, we have the power to shape the terms and conditions of our employment. We are dealing with the same funder (Ministry of Health), and with similar employer agendas in our workplaces. With a united front, we will be...

To all OPSEU/SEFPO members! Are you coming to Convention 2025? Worried that you’ll still be travelling home on Monday, April 28 or that you’ll be busy getting back to your day to day life and might miss Election day? You have nothing to worry about because you can vote in the advance polls that open...

OPSEU/SEFPO Convention is a safe and welcoming space. We would like to invite all First Nations (status and non-status), Métis and Inuit members attending Convention to join us in the opening procession as we begin Convention in a good way. We invite those who wish to wear their regalia, ribbon skirts or shirts, and/or sashes...

Hey Convention attendees – do you have some old eyeglasses you’re no longer using? Bring them to Convention and donate them to Rayjon! The OPSEU/SEFPO Social Justice Fund Board will have a donation box available at the Silent Auction table for your donated glasses. Your glasses will be given to Rayjon, a not-for-profit organization that...

On March 21, 2025, OPSEU/SEFPO ACOs from across the province held their first ACO Occupational Division biennial meeting. They elected their inaugural Executive, adopted Bylaws, and collaborated together on issues of concern in their workplaces. ACOs are the highly-trained professionals who take 911 calls from people in distress for medical emergencies, and dispatch and direct...

The Convention Team would like to reassure all registrants for Convention that we are diligently completing the registration and hotel reservations for all attendees. Due to the recent cybersecurity incident experienced by OPSEU/SEFPO, there will be a slight delay in sending attendees their hotel confirmations.  We anticipate that these confirmations will be sent out by...

Yesterday (April 2, 2025), we discovered that an unauthorized third party had accessed our IT systems. All signs point to this being an attack by sophisticated actors, and not a failure on the part of our IT team and/or OPSEU/SEFPO’s systems. See you at Convention 2025, Apr 24 – 27 Upon discovering the incident, we...

Ontario’s Public Colleges at a Crossroads: Navigating the Crisis and Building a brighter Future Ontario’s public college system is facing an unprecedented crisis – and at the root is the province walking away from its responsibility to fund education. It doesn’t have to be this way. OPSEU/SEFPO has been working diligently for months to map...

Taking public transit while you’re in the Greater Toronto Area for OPSEU/SEFPO Convention 2025? Looking for an easy way to get from the GTA or airport to downtown? Get 15 per cent off GO Transit fares from Apr 22-27 Get  25 per cent off UP Express fares from now through Apr 27. The promo code...

A short and exciting update to follow on the status of union certification for our part-time (PT) and sessional (SL) faculty colleagues! After years of advocacy and legal proceedings since the union drive began in 2017, we have received formal notice of the vote count from the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB). In just a...