Complaints

ALLISTON ON – The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) is calling for the employer at Community Living Association for South Simcoe (CLASS) to take immediate action in the wake of numerous incidents of workplace violence in the past year.  CLASS staff, who are members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 332, have faced an increase in physical...

HAMILTON – An announcement by Mohawk College to change nursing instructors’ job classifications, and cut their wages, will have a negative impact on the quality of education and training provided to nursing students, says the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO). Currently, students receive immediate feedback from faculty who provide hands-on, bedside education. The new...

Photos from the information rally outside the Quinte Detention Centre on Monday, November 22.  Members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 467 standing strong together to send a message to bosses that union-busting and punishment for union activity must end!  

A statement from OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas on Canadore College: OPSEU has reviewed the prepared statements released Monday, February 24 by the College Employer Council. We are disappointed that the College appears intent to stonewall requests to disclose the investigation report it obtained following nearly a year-long investigation into allegations of harassment, discrimination and...

Penetanguishene – An arbitrator has ruled in favour of OPSEU on the union’s allegation of an unfair labour practice against Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care. In his decision, dated June 12, 2019, Arbitrator Robert W. Kitchen ruled that Waypoint had indeed broken the law by violating section 70 of the Ontario Labour Relations Act,...

In May 2013, during our last round of contract negotiations, OPSEU filed a human rights complaint against the LCBO. After we reached a settlement with the LCBO it was the intention that both parties would agree to schedule mediation/adjudication meetings with a neutral third party in an attempt to resolve the issues raised in our...

January 25, 2011 (THOROLD) – Workers at Niagara Children and Youth Services have filed a complaint with Ontario Labour Relations Board, charging that the employer is negotiating in bad faith. The complaint to the OLRB was tabled last week, only days before the NCYS is scheduled to host a pricey media launch that will announce...

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union filed a legal challenge to Bill 115 on Thursday, October 11, 2012. OSSTF, ETFO and CUPE have filed similar challenges in an effort to protect the Charter right to bargain. “Collective bargaining is essential to democracy,” said OPSEU President, Warren (Smokey) Thomas. “By legislating education worker contracts across Ontario,...

OTTAWA – Carleton University has ordered their Campus Safety Workers to remove union buttons and stickers, leading the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) to file an Unfair Labour Practice complaint with the Ontario Labour Relations Board. Carleton University has declared that union buttons and stickers do not conform to their uniform policy, however OPSEU...