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Enter now for the Editor’s Weekend Awards of Excellence
They’re back! The Editor’s Weekend Awards of Excellence in Newsletter and Web Communications will be presented at the 2022 Editor’s Weekend. To enter, your local

Editor’s Weekend – Nov. 18-20
OPSEU/SEFPO’s InSolidarity Committee will be holding their biennial Editor’s Weekend Conference on Friday November 18 – Sunday November 20, 2022 at the Sheraton Toronto Airport

Labour Reads: ‘Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People’ by Dorothy Smith
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

Labour Reads: ‘Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice’ by Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
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

inSolidarity, Spring 2022: The latest news and insights from your inSol team
Editor’s Message: Thank you Thank you to all the workers who have kept Ontario running by continuing to provide public services throughout the entire COVID-19

Convention at a Glance, Day 3: OPSEU/SEFPO puts on fresh face as two brand-new leaders elected
OPSEU/SEFPO puts on fresh face as two brand-new leaders elected Printable pdf By Christina Chrysler After a season of campaigning at the regional and provincial

Convention at a Glance 2: Rainbow Alliance arc-en-ciel achieves constitutional status
Rainbow Alliance arc-en-ciel achieves constitutional status By Michael Hamilton and Dan McKnight OPSEU/SEFPO members have a great reason to feel Pride. An amendment to OPSEU/SEFPO’s

Convention at a Glance 1: Thomas delivers heartfelt goodbye
PDF version Smokey Thomas delivers heartfelt goodbye in final presidential address By Craig Hadley After 15 years at the OPSEU/SEFPO helm, President Warren (Smokey) Thomas

The Other Side of the Line
The Other Side of the Line Christina Chrysler – InSolidarity, Local 417 I was a relative union newbie in 2017 when college faculty across Ontario

Chill Out: Two easy (and free) ways to reduce stress now
Christina Chrysler, InSolidarity, Local 417 For many, the events of the past two years have led to increased feelings of stress and isolation. It is

Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Internal Responsibility System
By Joe Grogan, retired Introduction All OPSEU/SEFPO members go to work every day to earn a living to support of their families and achieve their individual goals. We want to come home

One for all: An interview with Kingsley Kwok
By Joe Grogan, retired Introduction In this presentation, we will share the results of an interview with an OPSEU/SEFPO Executive Board Member Kingsley Kwok from

OPSEU – inSol wants to hear from you!
The OPSEU inSolidarity Committee would love to showcase your work. We are currently accepting any written work from OPSEU members! You can submit an article

Now what? Building a better road for workers and unions
By Joe Grogan Introduction: Okay, the federal election is over — now what? It’s time for us to evaluate what we did and what our

Remembering 9/11
By Joe Grogan We are in the middle of the federal election. We must focus on holding our politicians accountable, while giving our support to

Should union members care about the federal election?
By Joe Grogan Introduction All union members should care about what happens in the federal election. The results will affect them and their families and