Response to Ontario Budget 2010

ONTARIO WAGE FREEZE
 

October 4, 2010  OPSEU llocal presidents and activists in OPSEU Region 6 met in Sudbury Oct. 1-2 to learn more about the McGuinty wage freeze and build plans to resist it. more...

September 27, 2010  OPSEU local presidents and activists met this weekend in Cornwall (Region 4) and Toronto (Region 5) to learn more about Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's wage freeze policy and to build strategies to battle it. more...

September 17, 2010  35 questions and 35 answers about "compensation restraint" .more...

September 17, 2010 Check out the new OPSEU brochure that tells the real story behind the McGuinty wage freeze. .more...

September 8, 2010 “A city that pays its taxes, and then uses them to sponsor a broader array of public goods and services (everything from first-class transit to neighbourhood clinics to parks to community housing), is a city that will be economically successful,” says CAW Economist, Jim Stanford, in the Toronto Star.  more...

September 7, 2010 "That $1,000 taken away from the struggling nursing home worker earning $25,000 a year isn’t really going toward deficit reduction," says Toronto Star columnist Linda McQuaig. "It’s going into reducing the taxes of some of our richest banks and corporations." more...

EVENT UPDATES

OPSEU takes its message to Liberal Party supporters in Brampton

September 1, 2010 More than 80 OPSEU members attended an early morning information picket at the Lionshead Golf and Country Club in Brampton today to greet Liberal Party supporters. photos and more...

Liberal fundraiser draws protestors from across the labour movement

August 20, 2010 Dalton McGuinty’s fundraiser at the GreyHawk Golf Club near Ottawa drew close to 100 protestors. OPSEU activists were joined by members of ONA, CUPE, CAW and PSAC as the Ottawa District Labour Council (ODLC), including President Sean McKenny, added their support to this province-wide campaign. photos and more...

NOTICE

August 16, 2010 The Executive Board has called a special meeting for all Local Presidents, OPS MERC/CERC Chairs, BPS Sector Chairs and the Chairs of CAAT(A), CAAT(S) as well as the Equity Chairs regarding the government’s Compensation Restraint policy. more...

NOTICE

OPSEU leaders address government’s new wage restraint policy

August 13, 2010 Consultations with public sector unions and employers regarding wage restraint are now underway with the provincial government. OPSEU leaders were among the first to meet with government representatives, on August 9th. more...

Demo at golf fundraiser in Brampton, Sept. 1st

Join OPSEU members in a demonstration on September 1st outside the Ontario Liberal Women's Caucus golf tournament. This $500 a person event will be held at the Lionshead Golf and Country Club located at 8525 Mississauga Road in Brampton starting at 6:30 am. Download the Flyer

LATEST NEWS

Liberal duffers hit rough at OPSEU demo

July 29, 2010 Tee off times were delayed for hundreds of well-heeled Liberal party members when more than 80 OPSEU demonstrators blocked the entrance to a golf club north of Toronto to protest the government’s proposed wage freeze, under-funding of public services and corporate tax giveaways. photos and more...