Pensions and Benefits

OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says he is pleased to see OPTrust Select, Ontario’s newest defined benefit pension plan in a generation, has hit the 1,000-member milestone.  The offspring of OPTrust – OPSEU’s existing public sector plan established in 1995 – is OPTrust Select, which expands coverage to OPSEU members in the broader public sector……

The Ontario Council of Educational Workers (OCEW) would like to provide an update to members regarding a couple of improvements to the OCEW Benefit Trust: Open enrollment The open enrollment window will be from August 31 to September 30 2020. Members will have 31 days to enroll. Members should be aware that this will be……

During two telephone town halls on May 12, thousands of angry OPSEU members joined Thomas to denounce OMERS CEO Michael Latimer for his heartless cuts to retirees’ pensions, and also for allowing a company owned by the plan – Life Labs – to brutally quash a union drive. To rub salt in the wound, OMERS……