May 3, 2002
Sudburians relieved OPSEU strike over: Many lives were put on hold during work stoppage, as people couldn't renew licences, get divorced The Sudbury Star | Huge backlog awaits striking OPSEU workers The Sault Star | Verdict out on OPSEU contract offer:
Tensions high among nurses at psychiatric hospital The North Bay Nugget | Strike's cost was hidden The Record An end to strike may not mean end to bitterness; OPSEU to vote this weekend on tentative contract agreement Guelph Mercury | Strike draws to end with 'bad feeling': Public service employees likely to be back
on job Monday if tentative deal with government is ratified on weekend The Standard (St. Catharines - Niagara) | For local teenager, OPSEU strike stalled her drive for freedom The Packet & Times (Orillia) | Tip of the hat to OPSEU The Toronto Star | Tory tactics were cynical The Toronto Star | The
strike's over - at last: Deal expected to end bitter seven-week walkout: Days of intense negotiations produce long-awaited agreement The Kingston Whig-Standard | OPSEU deal made on eve of byelection: Seven-week strike settled on day premier vies for legislature seat The Ottawa Citizen | The strike's over - at last:
'We have to pick up the pieces again': Islanders rejoice at news ferry service to return to normal The Kingston Whig-Standard
May 1, 2002
Fishery at risk from OPSEU strike The North Bay Nugget
| Courthouse is crippled: Strike causes courtroom delays The Observer (Sarnia)
| OPSEU strikers block courthouse The North Bay Nugget
| Chief seeks use of police recruits: Relief sought during OPSEU strike The Sault Star
| Field days for polluters The Standard (St. Catharines - Niagara)
| Public health threat looms: Environment Ministry workers on strike question how managers will be able to deal with workload The Standard (St. Catharines - Niagara) | Moose tag deadline The Daily Press (Timmins)
| Public at risk, strikers say The Review (Niagara Falls)
| Blind kids suffering due to OPSEU strike The Review (Niagara Falls)
| Macdonald students losing their education The Expositor (Brantford)
| Weekend prisoners go free for duration of OPSEU strike: People who should be behind bars given virtual get-out-of-jail-free card The Barrie Examiner | OPSEU strikers block Land Registry Office entrance Tribune (Welland)
| Labour protest biggest area has seen Orangeville Banner
April 30, 2002
LPH eyes deaths during strike Thunder Bay Times Journal | Strike butchers business: OPSEU
workers not spending at local businesses Oshawa This Week | OPSEU workers can't picket at jail: court order Milton Canadian Champion |
Hamilton industrial fatality under investigation The Hamilton Spectator |
OPSEU strike enters eighth week, National Post | OPSEU marches on Tory office: Police investigate assault complaints,The North Bay Nugget | OPSEU members, Galt staff clash, Cobourg Daily Star | CAW backs striking brothers,The Peterborough Examiner
| Strike keeps new officers off beat; Closed police college delays graduation,The Toronto Star | Eves is being unfair, The (Kitchener) Record |
New premier inherits 'OPSEU groupies', Cambridge Times | Province, strikers urged to resolve dispute ,The Standard (St. Catharines) | Jail manager may be cited for contempt; Accused of misleading judge, The Hamilton Spectator