Pensions

Toronto – Blake Hutcheson will soon take over as the new CEO of OMERS, the pension plan that owns LifeLabs, and OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas is demanding that he put a stop to the company’s layoffs and union-busting that are leaving all Ontarians in greater danger of COVID-19. “The results have come back and……

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……

On behalf of the thousands of OPSEU members who belong to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas has written to the pension plan’s leaders urging them to postpone a crucial vote on the plan’s future. “OPSEU is formally requesting you delay this vote until such a time when the……