Information by Ministry:
Ontario Disability Support Program
ODSP workers to
Walk for a Healthy Workplace on May 22
April 24, 2008 ODSP stewards attending
Convention 2008 unanimously endorsed a plan to hold a noon hour
Walk for a Healthy Workplace on May 22 in more than 40
communities around Ontario. The Walk represents the next step in
a campaign to draw public attention to an understaffing crisis
in which ODSP workers face caseloads that are twice the national
average.
On May 22, all available ODSP workers are
invited to participate in a Walk for a Healthy Workplace. It’s
an opportunity to help relieve the workplace stress and tension
and to have some fun with colleagues and friends!
Please post and circulate the May 22 ODSP Walk
for a Healthy Workplace. Click
here to download flyer.
MPPs Vote on ODSP
March 13, 2008 All members of the provincial legislature
have been sent a ballot
asking them to vote whether or not they support adding $60
million to this spring’s budget to address the understaffing
crisis in the Ontario Disability Support Program. We’ll tally
the results.
 Province-wide media coverage of ODSP Day of Action
March 5, 2008 Media coverage of the ODSP Day of
Action across Ontario.
more...
Hundreds join ODSP Picket Lines demanding $60
million to stop understaffing crisis
March 4, 2008 In a province-wide show of solidarity,
hundreds of staff of the Ontario Disability Support Program rallied outside OSDP
offices today to demand the provincial government stop the understaffing crisis
affecting the delivery of public services to 325,000 Ontarians with disabilities
and living beneath the poverty line. Story and
photos….
Information picket lines go up across Ontario today
to protest understaffing crisis in ODSP
 March 4, 2008 OPSEU calls for $60 million in this
spring’s budget to ease the understaffing crisis affecting 325,000 Ontarians
with disabilities and living beneath the poverty line
more...
ODSP Day of Action Less than 24 Hours Away!
 March
3, 2008 ODSP activists spent the weekend making final preparations for
tomorrow’s Ontario-wide Day of Action outside of ODSP offices. Make plans
now to join the information picket in a community near you
more..
February 27, 2008 News Release OPSEU to stage ODSP information pickets
across Ontario on March 4 ‘Day of Action’
more...
February 26, 2008 OPSEU president Warren (Smokey) Thomas, CERC chair Eric
Morin and COMSOC MERC chair Roxanne Barnes rallied ODSP stewards on Tuesday as
they began planning for a Day of Action to protest severe understaffing and
under funding that affects 325,000 Ontarians living in poverty.
See more photos from the event.
On March 4, please show your support for ODSP staff and clients and their
struggle for better public services by joining a noon hour information picket in
a community near you!
Office Locations
Studies conducted by Prof. Wayne Lewchuk of McMaster
University and funded by the Ministry of Community and Social Services has
found that ODSP staff suffer from ill health, stress and high absenteeism
caused by a caseload ratio twice the national average.
Summary of
Lewchuk Report
Full Lewchuk
Report
OPSEU President Smokey Thomas appeals to Locals and member
activists across Ontario to join ODSP workers during their noon hour Day of
Action information pickets on March 4
more...
Read about the understaffing crisis in the ODSP that affects
public service delivery to 325,000 disabled Ontarians living beneath the
poverty line more...
February 26, 2008 OPSEU President Warren (Smokey)
Thomas greets ODSP stewards at their mobilization meeting in preparation
for the March 4 Day of Action in support of $60 million in extra funding
to meet the public service needs of staff and clients
more...
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