Send a
Message to AGO Management
Don’t want to see picket lines at the AGO on
June 29? You can help.
Please send a message to AGO Director & CEO
Matthew Teitelbaum and AGO President,
Charles Baillie. Remind them AGO staff
matter, too. Tell them it’s time they
negotiated a fair contract that helps save
OPSEU members’ jobs. And let them know if
there is a strike, you won’t be visiting the
AGO, taking out or renewing an AGO
membership, or making a donation.
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E-mail:
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e-mail message.
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paste it into your e-mail. Please feel free
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of the numbers provided.
New Art, New Building…
How about a New Contract for AGO Staff?
To: Matthew
Teitelbaum, Director & CEO, Art Gallery of Ontario
Charles Baillie,
President, Art Gallery of Ontario
The AGO has a
well-earned reputation as one of the leading galleries in North
America. That success is due, in large part, to the important
contributions made by AGO staff.
I am therefore deeply
troubled that in your current contract negotiations, the AGO is
refusing to address the key issue of job security for the 260 members
of OPSEU Local 535 – and that the result could be a strike as early as
June 29.
You can’t run a great
gallery without great staff. Yet since 2003, the AGO has eliminated
more than 120 unionized jobs. At the same time, the gallery has raised
more than $211 million towards the Transformation AGO project. Now you
are threatening even more layoffs as construction proceeds.
AGO staff matter, too.
It is time that AGO management negotiated a fair contract that will
reduce job cuts, provide fair treatment for staff who are laid off,
and ensure that all laid off employees have the right to be recalled
when the gallery re-opens in 2008.
The AGO has too much
at stake to risk a strike. A work stoppage would mean major
disruptions for the upcoming Warhol exhibition, this summer’s
educational programs, and your ongoing fundraising campaign.
If a strike does
happen, I will NOT be visiting the gallery. I will NOT be taking
out/renewing an AGO membership. And I will NOT be making a donation to
the Transformation project.
I urge you to return
to the bargaining table to negotiate a fair collective agreement –
before the June 29 strike deadline.
Sincerely,
Name:
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