Nominations are now open for the 2025 Bread and Roses Award & the Regional Recognition Awards!
Nomination deadline is 5:00 pm on Friday, March 28, 2025.
- The Bread and Roses Award recognizes achievements in leadership, engagement and communities’ transformation, candidates must have demonstrated ability and spirit in advancing gender equality, as well as a solid commitment to social justice.
- The Regional Recognition Awards is awarded to one member from each 7 regions. It recognizes their contribution to the Union as well as their community. Any woman or woman identifying OPSEU/SEFPO member can be nominated for this award.
Individuals nominated for these awards must have also demonstrated a commitment to supporting equity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be an OPSEU/SEFPO member in good standing.
- Must be a woman or woman identifying individual.
Selection
OPSEU/SEFPO’s Provincial Women’s Committee will present the Bread and Roses Award and Regional Recognition Awards, at the 2025 Women’s Breakfast at the OPSEU/SEFPO Convention in April.
Nominations can be made by any member, local, Executive Board Member or member of any OPSEU/SEFPO provincial equity committee or caucus.
Nominations must take into consideration the following:
- Is the nominee active in OPSEU/SEFPO (e.g. elected to union position)?
- List any past and or future activities that the nominee is involved in that supports and promotes gender equality either in the workplace or community?
- How do the nominee’s goals and objectives align with the work of the Provincial Women’s Committee?
- What characteristics and skills do they possess that demonstrate excellence in leadership and activism?
- Provide a description of how their activism has positively impacted the labour movement and/or their community allies.
Members of OPSEU/SEFPO’s Provincial Women’s Committee (PWC) will review and select an award recipient from all nominations and applications. The recipients will be presented with the awards at the Women’s Breakfast at the OPSEU/SEFPO Convention in April.
All nominations and applications for the Bread and Roses Award can be sent to Michele Morrison, Chair of the OPSEU/SEFPO Provincial Women’s Committee (PWC)
Nominations for the Regional Recognition Awards can be sent to each PWC representative:
- Region 1: Sue Fairweather [email protected]
- Region 2: Michelle Morrison- [email protected]
- Region 3: Bonnie Eddy – [email protected]
- Region 4: Jennifer King [email protected]
- Region 5: Odessa Austin [email protected]
- Region 6: Maureen Harkin [email protected]
- Region 7: Gail Kelly [email protected]
All nominations must be received no later than 5pm on Friday, March 24, 2025.
If you have any questions, please contact the OPSEU/SEFPO Member Equity Unit at [email protected].
In Solidarity,
OPSEU/SEFPO Provincial Women’s Committee (PWC)