The following email was sent to all education workers in OPSEU/SEFPO Sector 3 this evening from President JP Hornick and First Vice-President/Treasurer Laurie Nancekivell.
We’re walking out this Friday.
Dear friends,
Many of you have been asking us what the plan is this Friday, November 4 for OPSEU/SEFPO education workers. We have heard from so many of you, telling us you want to support and join your CUPE colleagues and walk off the job this Friday in solidarity with them.
You’ve told us that the attack on education workers by Stephen Lecce and the Ford government this week is so harmful that we have to do everything we can to fight for our rights.
We have heard you.
We will support every OPSEU/SEFPO education worker who does not attend work this Friday.
If you are not attending work, join the nearest CUPE picket rally, if you can.
Click here to find the nearest CUPE rally to you by postal code.
Your union will have your back. You will not have to pay any fines. And you will have the full force of OPSEU/SEFPO behind you should your employer attempt to enact any discipline.
We have 8,000 education workers in our union. If you all walk out together on Friday, there is safety in numbers. Talk to your colleagues. Make plans with them to attend a nearby CUPE rally together.
You didn’t ask to be on the front lines of this fight, but you are strong. And we will have your back when you go out on Friday.
Stay tuned to www.opseu.org – we will post information, including answers to your questions, in the next 24 hours.
In solidarity,
JP Hornick, OPSEU/SEFPO President
Laurie Nancekivell, OPSEU/SEFPO First Vice-President/Treasurer