Awareness Days

OPSEU/SEFPO’s Coalition of Racialized Workers (CoRW) is inviting you to celebrate with us Black History Month (BLM).  This year’s theme is ‘Who We Are’ and it truly captures the activism and impact that CoRW continues to have in our Union. For over fifteen years, CoRW has been at the forefront of bringing equity issues to...

December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women. Today, we remember the 14 young women studying to become engineers at École Polytechnique in Montréal who were shot and killed by a gunman – targeted simply because they were women. Over 30 years ago, this tragedy initiated a dialogue that...

OPSEU/SEFPO commemorates International Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), which is observed annually on November 20 – the day that Rita Hester, a Black, trans woman, was murdered in 1998 at the age of 34. It is a day of remembrance for all trans people who have been killed, and a day of action to raise...