To all OPS
members,
As your elected
Central/Unified and Corrections
Bargaining teams we want to address
you and express our concerns over
the upcoming round of OPS
bargaining.
We have been
elected to bargain and bring back a
fair contract; that is what we
intend to do! However, we now find
ourselves in a position where this
process is being hijacked.
The McGuinty
government has proposed the
“Protecting Public Services Act”,
which lays out the framework for an
imposed contract, regardless of our
efforts to bargain in good faith.
This unprecedented attack on the
collecting bargaining rights of
public workers is both troubling and
unfortunate. The threat of
legislation over OPS employees is an
unfair, bad-faith move on the
employer’s behalf to bully our
members.
The teams have
made the very difficult decision to
not serve the employer with notice
to bargain at this time. We feel
that our efforts to bargain in good
faith has been compromised by the
pending legislation. We are eagerly
waiting for the employer to step up
and respect the collecting
bargaining process by removing the
proposed legislation and commit to
bargaining in good faith.
In Solidarity,
Roxanne Barnes,
Chair, OPS Central/Unified Team
Dan Sidsworth, Chair, OPS
Corrections Team
