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Nsoromma Design & Culture Group Inc has partnered with OPSEU/SEFPO’s Coalition of Racialized Worker’s (CoRW) to present a Kiddies section with Saldenah Carnival for 2024. This year’s annual Junior Carnival and Family Fun Parade will be celebrated on July 20 in honour of the dynamic displays of Caribbean culture, music and costumes. This will be great...

It’s been nearly four years since contract faculty at Ontario’s 24 public colleges voted on whether to join Ontario’s biggest and strongest public sector labour union: OPSEU/SEFPO. The College Employer Council (CEC) has tried every trick in the book to prevent the counting of the ballots – and has spent uncounted millions of taxpayer dollars...

Toronto –The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), is calling on the College Employer Council (CEC) to cease its obstructionist tactics and allow the votes of college contract faculty who are seeking to unionize to be counted. The call comes in the wake of college part-time support staff’s victory over the CEC’s attempts to block...

Toronto – After 18 months of legal wrangling, over 4,000 ballots cast by part-time college support staff in a union representation vote held last year will now be counted, the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) has ruled. Lawyers for the College Employer Council, representing all 24 public colleges in the province, had argued that the...

Toronto – Contract faculty working at all 24 of Ontario’s public colleges will soon have a chance to vote to unionize. Today at the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) filed an application to become the bargaining agent for thousands of faculty members who teach part-time (six or fewer...

Toronto –The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) has filed an application to represent contract faculty at Ontario’s 24 public colleges, delivering thousands of cards to the Ontario Labour Relations Board on March 30. OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas celebrated this milestone in one of the largest organizing drives in Canadian history, pointing out that these...

Ottawa – After an organizer talking to contract faculty about joining a union was thrown off the La Cité collégiale campus earlier this week, union leaders joined her return to campus Friday to send a message to colleges choosing to ignore workers’ rights. The President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) commended contract...

Toronto – The Ontario Labour Relations Board’s (OLRB) assignment of the Alternate Chair to the part-time college worker organizing drive is great news, according to the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). Sadly, however, it does little to help the workers who are facing lengthy delays as a result of games-playing on the...

Toronto – Advanced Education Minister Deb Matthews must direct community college presidents to stop trying to block part-time college support staff from unionizing, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said today. “Last week, we wrapped up the largest organizing drive in Canadian history when thousands of part-time support staff at 24 colleges...

TORONTO – The Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) has released the times and dates for an upcoming union representation vote for thousands of part-time support staff at Ontario’s 24 community colleges. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) has posted the vote schedule on its polling locations webpage. It is also posted on the collegeworkers.org...

Toronto – Part-time support staff at Ontario’s public community colleges will cast ballots this month on whether to join the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) has decided. In a June 13 ruling affecting thousands of workers at 24 colleges across the province, the OLRB said it will hold supervised...

TORONTO – Ontario college presidents need to read the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and quit trying to thwart union organizing, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says. “Freedom of association is the right of all Canadians. This includes the right to come together in a union and bargain for better wages and working...