April 10, 2006
Deadline extended for MTO
security checks
OPSEU members in the Ministry of
Transportation of Ontario who will be required to sign
consent forms related to security checks now have until
April 18 to do so.
OPSEU and the ministry will
discuss some outstanding issues related to the forms at a
grievance hearing this week. MTO members are advised to wait
before signing. More information should be available by
Thursday.
For background information on
the security checks, see the Dec. 9, 2005 and March 30, 2006
editions of FRONTlines. If you have a specific
question, please contact your OPSEU local president or staff
representative, or call OPSEU Job Security Officer Marg
Simmons at 1-800-268-7376 ext. 8377 or (416) 443-8888 ext.
8377.
Federal workers inch closer
to OPS
Info sessions
planned for OPSEU members
OPSEU members are about to find
out more about a plan to transfer about 700 federal jobs
into the Ontario Public Service.
Ottawa and Queen’s Park have
agreed to move certain federal Employment Insurance programs
to the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and
Universities. The federal jobs will end up in the Labour
Market and Training Division of MTCU on Jan. 1, 2007.
The transfer plan and an
accompanying Q&A are posted on the ministry web site.
Information sessions for current federal workers are under
way this week; sessions for current OPS workers in the
Labour Market and Training Division will happen April 18-21.
An OPSEU representative will
attend each session along with management representatives.
As reported earlier in
FRONTlines (Nov. 25, 2005), federal employees will be
covered by the OPSEU collective agreement as soon as they
come into the OPS.
For more information, contact
OPSEU Job Security Officer Stephen George at (416) 443-8888
ext. 8715 or 1-800-268-7376 ext. 8715.
Community groups stand up for Human
Rights Commission
Human Rights advocates launched
a blistering attack last week on Attorney General Michael
Bryant’s plan to dismantle to the Ontario Human Rights
Commission. In a question to Bryant in the Legislature last
Wednesday, NDP MPP Peter Kormos summed the issue up
succinctly: “It’s real nice to hear that the lawyers are
onside. The problem is that the victims of discrimination
aren’t onside. You are slashing and burning, and you’re
going to dismantle the commission with your direct-access
proposal. Since your announcement six weeks ago, group after
group, individual after individual who works out there on
the front lines, on the street, on the ground with victims
of discrimination and racism, amongst other things, has been
condemning your proposal. Why won’t you back off, sit down
with these folks, consult in a way that you haven’t
consulted, and develop reforms that are going to work for
everyone, not just your lawyer friends?”
Find out more at
www.protectyourrights.ca.
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