Gender Wage Gap

OPSEU Celebrates International Women’s Day A message from OPSEU’s President and First Vice-President/Treasurer: On this International Women’s Day we honour all women both inside and outside of OPSEU – including women in the province of Ontario, across Canada, and around the world for the endless contributions they make to their workplaces, families, and to their...

"We are asking you to make it a priority to ensure that no woman is left behind and that the transparency act actually forces our employers to address the gap that exists. We agree that it has been discriminatory, and again, the group of people who are most affected are the people who can’t fight...

Friends, its Equal Pay Day today, the date on the calendar that sets how far into the year that women must work to catch up with how much men made last year. It’s time to raise the bar for women and close the gap. We at OPSEU have been leading the fight to achieve pay...

OPSEU members in developmental services came out in full force Tuesday for the Equal Pay Day rally at Queen’s Park. Members helped lead leafleting action on all four corners of University Ave. and College St. OPSEU Region 3 Vice-President Sara Labelle, Developmental Services sector chair Erin Smith-Rice, and Indigenous mobilizer Crystal Sinclair all delivered rousing...

Dear friends: Well, it’s Equal Pay Day. We wish today could be a happier one, where we all celebrate the success of finally closing the gender wage gap in Ontario. But obviously, that’s not what today is about. The gender wage gap persists, and it does for so many reasons. Sure, we have laws in...

Toronto – Members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) who work in developmental services across Ontario will be in Toronto this afternoon to join the Equal Pay Coalition’s Equal Pay Day rally. “We will not break through the glass ceiling as one woman rising up,” said Sara Labelle, OPSEU Region 3 Vice-President and...

OPSEU members who receive a link to a questionnaire from Ontario’s Pay Equity Commissioner should not complete it, OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says. “I just found out today that the Commissioner, Emanuela Heyninck, has sent out a survey to many union locals and individual union members on the subject of pay equity,” he said....

Toronto – Following Community Living Tillsonburg’s earlier refusal to make pay equity payments as required by the law, the union representing workers in the developmental services across the province is ramping up its fight to achieve pay equity. In a strongly-worded letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) President Warren (Smokey) Thomas...

The letter below was sent by OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas to Premier Kathleen Wynne. In it, the President urges the Premier to start funding pay equity in developmental services. February 16, 2017 Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario Legislative Building  Queen's Park  Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Re: Your duty to enforce pay equity in the...

Tillsonburg, Ontario – The union representing workers at Community Living Tillsonburg (CLT) is threatening legal action over the agency’s refusal to make pay equity payments as required by law. CLT currently owes 232 workers a total of $784,632.23 plus interest. While the amount owed each individual depends on how long they worked at CLT, a...

OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas issued the following statement today to mark Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. It’s 2016. So why we are still making the case for quality, universal childcare? Today marks the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care’s Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. It’s a...

In a guest column in the Toronto Sun, OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas urges the premier to take action now and stop driving the gender wage gap wider in the public sector by cutting women’s wages. Read the full column in the Toronto Sun.