We’re putting the teams together.
On Saturday, April 21, delegates to seven OPSEU Regional
Bargaining Conferences around the province elected the first members
of the OPS bargaining teams for the upcoming round of contract
negotiations. Delegates elected 14 team members. Five more will be
elected this Saturday, April 28 in Toronto at the Central Bargaining
Conference in Toronto. One Alternate will join the Corrections Team
at that time as well.
The following members were elected April 21 to represent their
OPSEU regions on the Central Team:
Region 1: Steve Nield, Local 123
Region 2: Marg Simmons, L. 263
Region 3: Laurie Chapman, L. 323
Region 4: Jeff Bendig, Local 434
Region 5: Teri Breau-Auzins, L. 506
Region 6: Serge Valcourt, Local 634
Region 7: Joseph Catroppa, Local 736
Under revised OPSEU procedures, the 49-member bargaining teams of
past rounds will be reduced to 20 members, on two teams. The Central
Team will be made up of the seven delegates elected by their regions
(see above), plus one delegate for each of five bargaining
Categories, plus one delegate representing “unclassified”
workers. In total, the Central Team will have 13 members.
A separate Corrections Category team will have seven members, one
elected from each Region. The Corrections Team, elected April
21 will consist of:
Region 1: Mark Kotanen, L. 128
Region 2: Barry Scanlon, L. 230
Region 3: Larry Cripps, L. 309
Region 4: Thomas James Bothwell, L. 467
Region 5: Dave Graves, L. 521
Region 6: Rick Dagenais, L. 642
Region 7: Len Mason, L. 737
Remaining elections (April 28)
Members of the Corrections Team will choose one of their number
this Saturday to move to the Central Team. That individual’s 1st
Alternate will then join the Corrections Team.
The remaining four bargaining Categories plus unclassified
workers will also elect their representatives to the Central Team,
with all elections taking place this Saturday, April 28 in Toronto.
Voters in each group will consist of the seven delegates elected
regionally April 21. The following people were elected as delegates
to the Central Bargaining Conference:
Administrative Category:
Region 1: Tom Grimes, L. 140
Region 2: Brian Yasvinski, L. 205
Region 3: Roxanne Barnes, L. 319
Region 4: Ron Fabian, L. 455
Region 5: Leo Herskovits, L. 599
Region 6: Michel Chaumont, L. 623
Region 7: Mark Gadawski, L. 711
Institutional and Health Care Category:
Region 1: Philip Shearer, L. 112
Region 2: Linda Pehlke, L. 226
Region 3: Mark Dorsay, L.331
Region 4: David Lundy, L. 436
Region 5: Brenda Gifts, L. 521
Region 6: James Collins, L.636
Region 7: James Roland, L. 720
Office Administration Category:
Region 1: Sandra Noad, L. 101
Region 2: Jean Kirkpatrick, L. 201
Region 3: Catherine Wood, L. 340
Region 4: Brian Lowry, L. 407
Region 5: John Klonowski, L. 599
Region 6: Lynda Ferguson, L. 629
Region 7: Isabelle Mercier, L. 720
Technical/Operational and Maintenance Category:
Region 1: Dennis Freitas, L. 154
Region 2: Fred Stone, L. 220
Region 3: Les Stewart, L. 337
Region 4: Rod Morrison, L. 428
Region 5: Anthony Sword, L. 549
Region 6: Peter Wall, L. 638
Region 7: Bob Curtis, L. 704
Unclassified Workers:
Region 1: Dave Beaul, L. 135
Region 2: Neil Fraser, L. 248
Region 3: Malcolm Thomas, L. 337
Region 4: Darwin Lacelle, L. 447
Region 5: Wendy Goring, L. 517
Region 6: Darlene Leblanc, L. 608
Region 7: Alex Turner, L. 713
The many Alternates elected April 21 will play a key role in
mobilization around bargaining. For a complete list of all those
elected, click here.
Results of the April 28 elections will appear in an April 30
edition of Table Talk.
Table Talk will be published frequently throughout 2001,
and will provide news and information about bargaining until we have
a new collective agreement. This information is important to every
worker in the OPSEU bargaining unit in the OPS. It is published on
our web site at www.opseu.org, but you can also receive it
directly by e-mail or by fax. To receive Table Talk, e-mail a
message to lwilliams@opseu.org
or fax it to Lesley Williams at (416) 443-1762. Please include your
name, correct mailing address, and local number (if you know it),
and indicate that you want to be on the OPS list.
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