Contact Your MPP
Getting in
touch with your MPP can be an important way to make sure the
McGuinty government gets our message to restore successor
rights now.
Lobbying Visits
To join a
group of OPSEU members for a face-to-face visit with your MPP,
contact your local president or your OPSEU regional office.
Send
Your MPP a Message
To send your
MPP an e-mail, a fax message or a personal letter, follow the
steps below. We suggest you contact your MPP at his/her
constituency office.
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Look up your MPP’s contact information:
Click here to find your MPP’s e-mail, fax number or
mailing address.
Don’t know your MPP’s name or which riding you live in?
Click here.
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To send an e-mail
to your MPP, just click on the e-mail address provided on
either site listed above. Copy the sample message below and
paste it into the body of your e-mail. Feel free to add any
additional points that will help convince your MPP to
support successor rights.
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To send a fax,
click here for a sample fax message you can print or
download. Just add your MPP’s name and fax number (see links
above) along with your name and address.
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To send a letter,
look up your MPP’s mailing address and copy the sample
message below. Again, feel free to include any additional
points you want to make.
Dear
_____________,
I’m writing to
ask your help in ensuring fairness for Crown employees and
protecting Ontario’s public services.
In April,
2003, Dalton McGuinty made an important promise to Crown
employees. He said:
Public
employees should have the same rights as employees in
the private sector, and, as Premier, I will restore
successor rights for Ontario government employees.
“Successor
rights” provide minimum protections to workers whose jobs are
transferred or contracted out to another employer. They ensure
workers can move with their jobs – and take their wages,
benefits, collective agreements and their union with them.
The vast
majority of unionized workers in Ontario have successor
rights. Crown employees don’t. This includes 50,000 OPSEU
members who work in the Ontario Public Service, certain
provincial agencies and at the LCBO. Our successor rights were
stripped away in 1995 to make it easier to cut public
services. This cost thousands of Crown employees their jobs,
and meant wage and benefit cuts for thousands more.
It’s time
Dalton McGuinty lived up to his promise.
Restoring
successor rights is about fairness. Crown employees should not
be treated as second class citizens by the government we work
for.
It’s also
about protecting the public services we provide. Any
divestment is extremely disruptive. The best way to maintain
the quality and level of divested services is to protect the
jobs, working conditions and standards of living of the
dedicated employees who deliver them.
I am writing
to ask your help.
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Please raise this issue with Premier McGuinty, Labour Minister
Steve Peters, Government Services Minister Gerry Phillips, and
your caucus colleagues.
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Tell them that successor rights matter to hundreds of OPSEU
members who live in your riding, and 120,000 more across the
province.
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And urge the government to pass legislation to restore
successor rights for Crown employees during the next
legislative session.
