LIQUOR BOARD EMPLOYEES DIVISION
Hands off our work!
May 8, 2008 The Echo Issue 8, Also: Update:
Agency Stores Campaign, . . . meanwhile, LCBO stonewalls FOI requests on
agency stores data more...
ONTARIO HEALTH COALITION
Statistics tell the tale on long-term care staffing
May 8, 2008 The Ontario Health Coalition says
that new government figures show care levels are stagnant in Ontario’s
long term care homes, despite repeated promises by the McGuinty
government to improve care and bring in minimum care standards.
more...
HEALTH CARE DIVISIONAL COUNCIL
OPSEU takes Central East LHIN to court over mental health bed cuts in
Ajax
May 8, 2008 Dialogue 45: Ambulance members to
make case at May 23 OMERS meeting; Grey Bruce Health Unit office and
clerical members on strike;
more...
Health professionals seek action on national HR shortages: NUPGE
May 8, 2008 Representatives of the Canadian Health
Professionals Secretariat (CHPS) gathered in Ottawa recently to assess
public policy and labour relations developments over the last six months and
to map the course ahead for Canada’s health professionals.
more...
ONTARIO PUBLIC SERVICE: MERC NEWSLETTERS
MCSS members in action across the province
May 8, 2008 Community and Social Services MERC
Newsletter for May 2008: Day of Action, Developmental Services, NUPGE,
more...
MOHLTC: The times they are a changin’
May 8, 2008 Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
MERC Newsletter: Which Direction -- Issue 4 May 2008.
more...
HEALTH CARE SUPPORT
Strike continues: Patty Rout
visits pickets
in Owen Sound
May 8, 2008
The strike at the Grey Bruce Health
Unit enters its first week today. On
May 7, OPSEU First Vice-President/Treasurer
Patty Rout visited the line. View
photos…
AMBULANCE
DIVISION
Taking our case
to OMERS
May 6, 2008
Ambulance Division
members can attend
the 2008 Spring
Annual Regional
Meeting of the OMERS
Administration
Corporation.
more...
CANADIAN BLOOD
SERVICES AND
DIAGNOSTICS
CBS Pay Equity
Update
May 5, 2008 CBS
Pay Equity project:
The job evaluation
process is now
complete. Meetings
are scheduled in May
and June 2008 as the
next step in the
process.
more...
JOIN US
Welcome new OPSEU
members in Elgin
County
and Rexdale
May
5, 2008 More than 80
new members joined OPSEU
this week.
more...
WORKERS OF COLOUR CAUCUS
Summer fundraiser June
14
May 5,
2008 The Workers of
Colour Caucus will hold its
summer fundraiser for
OPSEU’s Live and Let Live
Fund at Christie Pits,
Toronto, June 14.
more...
NOTICE
Vince Vadacchino, 64
May 5,
2008 The longtime OPSEU
activist passed away May 2.
more...
HEALTH AND SAFETY
June 1: Injured Workers
Day
May 5,
2008 Sunday June 1 is
Injured Workers Day.
more...
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR UPDATES
Rally in solidarity with
Colombian workers
May 5, 2008
On Thursday May 8, the
Toronto and District Labour
Council will be part of a protest
rally as the Vice-President of
Colombia visits Toronto.
more...
HOSPITAL PROFESSIONALS DIVISION
More than 700 attend Ajax rally
May 5, 2008
Despite a downpour, more than 700
members of the community attended a
rally in Ajax May 3 to save mental
health beds at the Ajax-Pickering
hospital.
View Photos….
OPSEU IN THE NEWS: ECONOMIC POLICY
We're all in the same boat
May 3, 2008
Globe and Mail - Economists used to
say that "a rising tide lifts all
boats," but the latest StatsCan
report tells a different story.
more...
PART-TIME COLLEGE WORKERS
Getting to the table
May 2, 2008 NEW! Answers to frequently asked
questions for part-time and sessional college employees
more...
COLLEGE SUPPORT
Bullying: We need to stop it now
May 1, 2008
College Support bargaining: Issue Sheet
1. Bullying at work – We need to stop it
now!
more...
HEALTH CARE DIVISIONAL
COUNCIL
OPSEU joins sister unions in 'Stop The Violence' May Day rally at Queen's
Park
May
1, 2008: Stop the Violence: OPSEU members joined ONA, SEIU, CEP, Machinists,
and other unions for a noon-hour rally at Queen's Park calling on the Ontario
government to take action on workplace violence.
more...
HEALTH CARE SUPPORT
OPSEU Grey Bruce Health Unit on
strike
May
1, 2008 Office and clerical
employees of the Grey Bruce Health Unit
are on the picket lines this morning
after last-minute negotiations failed.
more..
MEMBER DEVELOPMENT TRAINEE PROGRAM
OPSEU Members: Union Trainee
Opportunities
May 1, 2008 If
you are a member of the Ontario Public
Service Employees Union, you may be
eligible for a three-month training
development opportunity that will
develop your knowledge and skills of the
trade union movement in a variety of
union-related occupations at OPSEU.
Apply
on-line
COMMUNITY SERVICES DIVISIONAL
COUNCIL
Workplace Violence Workshops
"Acting together
against workplace violence" will
be held in various cities across the
province for Community Services
bargaining units. Bargaining units
are entitled to send a maximum of
two members to each workshop
Friday, May 23 at the Days
Inn & Conference Centre in Kingston
(Region 4).
Friday, May 9 at the Best
Western Otonabee Inn in Peterborough
(Region 3).
Friday, May 2 at the Delta
Meadowvale (Region 2 ).
more...
ONTARIO DISABILITY SUPPORT PROGRAM
ODSP workers to Walk for a Healthy Workplace on May 22
On the heels of its successful March 4 Day
of Action, Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) stewards have endorsed the
next stage in their campaign to draw attention to the understaffing crisis
more...
HOSPITAL PROFESSIONALS
DIVISION
Central HPD pay
equity meeting set for
May 29
OPSEU and
the Participating
Hospitals have agreed to
hold a day-long
information and training
session on the roll-out
of our central pay
equity process on May
29, 2008, in Toronto.
more...
HPD Pre-bargaining
conference May 30
The pre-bargaining
conference will be held Friday
May 30, 2008.
Details and conference
documents…
