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January 26, 2011 Local 652 Ontario Public Service members in Chapleau wear their opposition to Premier McGuinty’s wage “freeze”.  more..

January 17, 2011 “On two occasions, the share of income captured by the richest 1 per cent reached about a quarter of the national total. The first time was in 1928, the second in 2007.” Says CAW Economist, Jim Stanford. . more...

January 12, 2011 “Members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and their supporters are calling on the McGuinty government to cancel $2.4 billion in tax cuts to corporations and invest that money instead in public services.” more...

December 23, 2010 I agree with you that the deficit is out of hand, but perhaps your government should have thought of that before handing out billions of dollars in no strings attached corporate tax cuts, with no accountability in the cuts to create jobs. More...

December 15, 2010 Monday December 13th between noon and 1p.m., OPSEU activists, local presidents and Executive Board Members in Belleville orchestrated another successful demo despite the cold temperatures. more...

December 13, 2010 Toronto Star.  more...

December 6, 2010 OPSEU members took to the streets across Ontario on December 3, protesting corporate tax cuts that are equal to more than $500 from every household. More…

November 30,  2010 Premier Dalton McGuinty ducked into a $300-a-plate Liberal fundraiser in Hamilton last night in order to avoid explaining to OPSEU members why he’s trying to cut their pay through his wage-freeze policy but giving away $2.4 billion to profitable corporations.  more...

November 25,  2010 Attendees at a $300 a plate fundraiser for Dwight Duncan were greeted by a noisy group of sign and flag carrying OPSEU members on November 23..  more...

November 24, 2010 “OPSEU members protested the mandatory wage freeze outside Thunder Bay’s city hall Monday night,” reports tbnewswatch.com.  more...

November 23, 2010 OPSEU representatives Chris Cormier, Cam Jay, Shelley Moody and Daryl O’Grady attended the CCPA Conference and 30th Anniversary Gala Dinner at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa on Nov 18, 2010.. more...

November 22, 2010 OPSEU members rallied outside of Bill Mauro’s office, MPP to Thunder Bay-Atikokan after being refused an opportunity to speak with him. more...

November 19, 2010 Mobilizer Dennis Ginter tells the Wawa News that wage cuts for public sector workers coupled with tax cuts for profitable corporations hurts the economy as a whole. more...

November 18, 2010 Preparations are underway for a picket protesting the wage freeze and corporate tax cuts outside Guelph MPP Liz Sandals’ office in Guelph. more...

November 17, 2010 “Our jobs affect your lives every day in every way,” said OPSEU mobilizer, Helen Haggith, in the Windsor Star. “We don't answer to shareholders, we answer to you.” more...

November 17, 2010 "What is urgently needed is a powerful campaign challenging the moral legitimacy of a small faction having such a large share of society’s resources, and with it, undue control over society." Says McQuaig. more...

November 16, 2010 On November 15, nineteen OPSEU member volunteers distributed 2,500 flyers in Peterborough. With recent cuts to the Peterborough hospital our message has never been so relevant. more...

November 4, 2010  The wage freeze doesn't make sense when every single dollar a lab technologist or a developmental services worker gives up will go to pay for corporate tax cuts. more...

November 1, 2010 OPSEU local presidents from across Region 3 held their Regional Presidents’ Conference north of Orillia on Oct. 28 to learn more about the McGuinty wage freeze and the union campaign to oppose it. . more...

October 18, 2010 This past Friday in Toronto, delegates to the provincial Liberal Annual General Meeting were met by OPSEU members and members of UNITE HERE Local 75 at the Sheraton Centre. more...

October 15, 2010 Kingston and District Labour Council (KAC) staged a street theatre production on October 13 to protest McGuinty’s proposed wage freeze. more...

October 7, 2010 Activists from OPSEU Region 2 took the union’s message about corporate tax cuts to the streets of Hamilton this week   more...

October 4, 2010  OPSEU local 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 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...