Elections

These are candidates for the Indigenous Equity Executive Board Member seat. Nominations for the position — and to participate in the process — closed at 5pm on Friday, March 14, 2025. An online candidates forum will be held on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 (6:30 pm – 8:30 pm). This will be an opportunity for the OPSEU/SEFPO...

OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick was in Thunder Bay last weekend for the Region 7 Leadership Conference, just a few days after the snap provincial election was called. Reporters from TBnewswatch.com and Global TV’s TBT Newshour caught up with Hornick and several other OPSEU/SEFPO leaders at Confederation College, where they were meeting with OPSEU/SEFPO’s College Part-Time...

OPSEU/SEFPO Correctional Bargaining Unit delegates from every OPS Corrections and Youth Justice local elected their leaders at the biennial OPS Correctional Bargaining Unit Divisional Meetings October 26-27, 2024. (Scroll down for election results.) They also received reports from their Ministry Employee Relations Committee (MERC) teams, their health and safety committees and their bargaining team, as...

For Immediate Release April 26, 2024 TORONTO – This morning at OPSEU/SEFPO Convention 2024, member delegates from across Ontario re-elected President JP Hornick to continue the worker fightback for better working conditions for public sector workers and strong public services for all Ontarians. It will be Hornick’s second two-year term as president of OPSEU/SEFPO. “There...

We’re excited to share the results of the first part of the Bargaining Team election that took place Saturday, February 10, 2024 at the OPS Unified Regional Bargaining Conference. This is a two-part process. The elections for remaining members of the team will take place at the OPS Unified Central Bargaining Conference on February 24,...

Dear Members, This is to advise you that the 2022 OPS Unified Divisional Meeting and Conference has been scheduled. Date: Saturday, October 22, 2022   9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Bylaws & Bargaining Procedures) Sunday, October 23, 2022  9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (MERC Caucus & Elections) Please call a meeting for the OPS Unified members...

Community Connections – Spring 2022 For OPSEU/SEFPO members working in Sector 17 Community Health Care Professionals Printable PDF COVID-19 and return to work hybrid models Following the lifting of public health measures we are seeing changes in workplaces following the pandemic. Some workplaces are adopting a hybrid model, no longer requiring staff to be in...

Tens upon tens of thousands of OPSEU/SEFPO members voted. Thousands knocked on doors, called, and volunteered for their local candidates. And many more put our names forward as candidates – always an act of commitment and courage. We can be proud that the party we support remains Official Opposition, because we helped make it happen....

Toronto – JP Hornick has been elected as the new President of OPSEU/SEFPO marking the first change in the union’s presidency in 15 years. Hornick is the Coordinator of the School of Labour at George Brown College, a long-time OPSEU/SEFPO leader and a women’s rights, equity, LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS activist. She ran for President on a...

Building resilience in the face of conflict; it was a pivotal theme throughout this year’s OPSEU/SEFPO Broader Public Sector (BPS) Conference and Divisional meetings. Nearly 500 delegates participated in this year’s conference, which was held virtually from Friday, October 22 to Sunday, October 24. The conference theme of “Challenges, Actions, Resilience,” resonated with OPSEU/SEFPO leaders and...

The health risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic were a major factor in a decision by OPSEU/SEFPO’s Executive Board to extend the terms of everyone democratically elected during the 2019 Regional Meetings. President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says the decision was not made lightly. “The democratic right of the members to decide will always be a...

The BPS Conference and Divisional Meetings 2019 was held November 15-17. It ended with the election of new divisional executives, as follow. Sector 1: Ambulance James Ramage, Chair Terry Baker, Vice-Chair To be elected next Divex: Secretary/Treasurer Mario Posteraro, Director 2 – Hamilton, Brant, Norfolk Timothy Szumlanski, Director 3 – Peel, Guelph/Wellington, Halton Cory Schepers,...