Campaign to end workplace violence
Dates and locations are being finalized for the remaining workshops, slated for May and June. They will be posted as soon as locations are
confirmed.
April 24, 2008: Community Services bargaining units in
Region 4 are entitled to send a maximum of two members to the
workshop on using our health and safety rights to mobilize collectively against
workplace violence. The workshop will be held Friday, May 23, 9:00 a.m. – 4: 30
p.m., Days Inn & Conference Centre, 33 Benson Street, Kingston (Division Street
and Benson Street) Meeting Room: Salon A.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Click here for the
workshop package.
Mar. 31, 2008: Community Services bargaining units in
Region 3 are entitled to send a maximum of two members to the
workshop on using our health and safety rights to mobilize collectively against
workplace violence. The workshop will be held Friday, May 9, 9:00 a.m. – 4: 30
p.m., Best Western Otonabee Inn, 84 Lansdowne St. East, Peterborough, in the
Roger Room. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Click here for the
workshop package.
March 25, 2008: Bargaining units in
Region 2 are invited
to send a maximum of two members to our workshop on using our health and safety
rights to mobilize collectively against workplace violence. The workshop will be
held Friday, May 2, 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 4: 30 p.m. at the Delta Meadowvale.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Click here for the
workshop package
March 12, 2008 Region 5
The first of seven workshops (one per OPSEU region) on
using our health and safety rights to mobilize collectively against workplace
violence will be held Friday, April 25, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the
Toronto OPSEU Office, 31 Wellesley Street East.
Click
here for the workshop package.
February 12, 2008:
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas and Community Services Divisional Chair
Deborah Gordon update members on campaign activities, including a phone poll of
members, planning for enforcement workshops in the spring and a big welcome to
Membership Development Trainee Patti Markland, L. 448,
more...
January 22, 2008
OPSEU President Smokey Thomas and Deborah Gordon, chair of the Community
Services Divisional Council, have written to members to
raise awareness of the campaign.
more...
Nearly one in five violent
incidents happen in the workplace, according to Statistics Canada.
The Community Services
Divisional Council is launching a campaign to end workplace violence. The
Community Services Division includes the following sectors: developmental
services, children’s aid societies, child and family services, child care,
community agencies, youth corrections, and child treatment centres.
We will hold regional workshops
this spring on enforcing workers’ right to a safe workplace. In order to prepare
for these workshops, we need your help.
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