About OPSEU

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union is one of Canada's most democratic and dynamic unions. With approximately 115,000 full- and part-time members, nearly 500 locals, and 35 Regional Offices and Membership Centres across Ontario, we're the third largest union in the province. This means OPSEU can bargain from a position of real power.

We stand up for the rights of our members, both on the job and in our communities. We are dedicated to high standards of public service and good laws that support working people.

 

OPSEU's structure

OPSEU divides the province into seven regions. The first digit of the local number tells what region it is in. Local 123 is in Region 1, Local 234 in Region 2 and so on. Every two years, delegates from Locals in each region meet to elect three members to the union's provincial Executive Board; one of whom is also elected as the Regional Vice-President. The OPSEU President and First Vice-President/Treasurer are full-time positions elected to two-year terms from among the board members at the annual convention. The seven regional vice-presidents, plus the president and first vice-president/ treasurer, form the Executive Committee.

The OPSEU head office is located in Toronto. Regional Offices are located in Brockville, Dryden, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Niagara, North Bay, Orillia, Ottawa, Owen Sound, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Timmins, Toronto, Whitby, and Windsor.

 

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Who Belongs to OPSEU

OPSEU is people - more than 100,000 people in all kinds of jobs. They are teachers and support staff in community colleges and universities, health care professionals in hospitals, ambulance paramedics, counsellors in centres for the developmentally handicapped, clerks at land titles offices, conservation officers in provincial parks, caregivers in community agencies, staff in psychiatric hospitals, and they are court reporters in provincial courts and guards in the provincial jails.

How OPSEU works for you

OPSEU members have a big say in how their union works. You control your own local. You elect stewards, local officers and convention delegates, and you yourself can run for union positions.


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