2010

We have received an overwhelming response to our request for information about your transcript work. Your willingness to share this very personal information will definitely make the difference when we go back to the Grievance Settlement Board. While there are still some who continue to cloud the issue as a means to protect their lucrative...

OPSEU Local 535 represents more than 260 full- and part-time workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) workers ratify new collective agreement May 28, 2010  In a vote held on Thursday, May 27, 2010, employees at the Art Gallery of Ontario voted to ratify a new two-year collective agreement after...

A ratification vote is set for May 10. On Apr. 21 members of Local 639 voted 90 per cent in favour of strike action, had negotiations failed. Jeanne Sauvé Family Services staff members operate programs for at-risk children and young people in seven communities in northeastern Ontario, including Kapuskasing, Cochrane, Smooth Rock Falls, Timmins, Val...

NIAGARA FALLS – The Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) and its Parks Employees, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 217, are pleased to announce a new four-year contract agreement has been reached and ratified by both parties. The new collective agreement, which was approved by members of Local 217 on Thursday January...

SUDBURY – Members of OPSEU Local 677 representing administrative, clerical and technical staff at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine have ratified a tentative contract agreement by a margin of 78 per cent. The tentative contract now goes to NOSM’s board of directors on Nov. 9. If approved by the board it will bring to...

The Executive Board has called a special meeting for all Local Presidents, OPS MERC/CERC Chairs, BPS Sector Chairs and the Chairs of CAAT(A), CAAT(S) as well as the Equity Chairs regarding the government’s Compensation Restraint policy to be held on Monday September 13, 2010 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Toronto starting at 10...

President Thomas, Julie Weber, Ministry of the Attorney General MERC Chair and OPSEU Staff met with the Attorney General, Chris Bentley on Wednesday, March 31st. The Union requested this meeting in order to discuss concerns regarding the implementation of the court reporters Hunt et al decision.  Even though Grievance Settlement Board Vice-Chair Abramsky determined in this...

ServiceOntario is implementing a new Customer Service Representative (CSR) classification. There are over 1,500 OPSEU members employed by Service Ontario. Approximately 1,000 are being transferred into the new CSR class series. There will be no loss in OPSEU jobs and no one is having their wages reduced. Those who are being matched to the new...

Ontario is falling desperately short in its responsibility to protect and rehabilitate mental health patients who find themselves caught in the criminal justice system, says the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. To address this crisis, OPSEU is calling on the provincial government to provide immediate, designated and sustainable funding that will permit mental health patients...

(KAPUSKASING) – Demonstrations by Children’s Aid Society workers are being organized this week and next across northeastern Ontario to protest the crisis in child protection services. “We have reached the stage where we have no alternative but to take to the streets so that the public can learn directly from front-line workers how bad the...

WINDSOR – The government should not be cutting public sector jobs in economically hard-hit Windsor, says the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). The Ontario Agency for Health Promotion and Protection (OAHPP) has announced it will close the Windsor Public Health Laboratory by the end of the year, sending the lab services and 21 decent-paying...

OPSEU President, Warren (Smokey) Thomas, will be holding a press conference at St. Clair Child and Youth Services to address the crisis in children’s mental health funding. November 10, 2010 4:30 p.m. St. Clair Child and Youth Services OPSEU Local 145 Smokey will be joined by Sahar Nasr, President, Board of Directors, St. Clair Child...