Ontario Public Service

Transportation ministry evaluating plow job

Bare pavement not achieved, official says

The Ministry of Transportation Ontario is evaluating highway maintenance by its contractor for the North Bay area this week after a thick coat of ice remained three days after a snowstorm Tuesday followed by extreme cold. more...

OPSEU warns against privatizing disability benefit delivery

December 28, 2012 Union concern over the possibility that delivery of the Ontario Disability Support Program will be handed over to the private sector or downloaded to municipalities is sparking a “Winter Blues” workplace campaign. more...

Flying truck tire renews outrage

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 The death of a 53-year-old woman on the QEW from a stray truck tire on Thursday is raising questions about the wisdom of closing truck inspection sites. more...

Province to shell out $36M in bonuses

December 20, 2011 The cash-strapped Ontario government will pay out $35.8 million in performance bonuses Thursday to its managers. more...

Cuts reach great depths as province’s only marine heritage advisor faces lay off

December 15, 2011 One of only three senior specialists in the protection of underwater shipwrecks and artifacts in Canada and the United States has been laid off by the Ontario government, putting the province’s marine heritage at serious risk. more...

OPSEU to Frances Lankin: Improve income assistance for people with disabilities

November 22, 2011 The union representing workers at the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) calls on the provincially-appointed Commission for the Reform of Social Assistance (CRSA) to improve the program instead of downloading it to municipalities. more...

Second wave of OPS layoffs undercutting front-line services: OPSEU

November 18, 2011 Today, the Ontario government will issue another 231 layoff notices as the province continues to eliminate positions across government services. These layoffs will further erode support to front-line services and increase workloads and public waiting times. more...

Widening income gap hurts us all

July 22, 2011 Toronto Star's business columnist David Olive wrote on July 22 that a progressive taxation system is a solution to the widening income gap, stagnating wages for the middle class and exorbitant CEO pay more...

Public service cuts pay for corporate tax cuts

July 2, 2011 All the money the government will save from cuts to public services will pay for corporate tax cuts, monster bonuses and sky-high wages of corporate CEOs. more... 

OPS suffers largest job losses since Harris era

July 14, 2011 Layoff notices went out to 274 Ontario Public Service workers today in the largest job cut since the dark days of the Mike Harris era more... 

A dangerous trend

June 21, 2011 Letter to the editor by Chris Cormier, published in the Toronto Star, more... 

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