Tag: Ontario Public Service Employees Union
LCBO workers picket outside Owen Sound location
Dozens of LCBO workers picketed in front of the location at the corner of 9th Street East and 16th Street East in Owen Sound Friday as unionized staff are now on strike for the first time in the history of Ontario’s main liquor retailer. A strike deadline set by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, […]
Union blames province as London-area Children’s Aid Society cuts jobs
The London-area child welfare agency is cutting jobs and overhauling some services in the face of a “significant” budget shortfall that its union blames on inadequate provincial funding. Nineteen unionized and four management jobs are affected by the shake-up, said the Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex. Its executive director said spending cuts alone, […]
Remote instructor wins fight against Fanshawe College over COVID policy
A labour arbitrator has ruled against Fanshawe College in a dispute over its COVID-19 vaccination policy for staff, finding a move to enforce the rule against a fully remote worker was unreasonable.
College support staff ratify new contract
Full-time support staff at Ontario’s 24 publicly-funded colleges are now under a contract for the next three years.
College support staff have a tentative deal
It still needs to be ratified by both sides.
London paramedics sound alarm as ER backlogs tie up ambulances
The crisis in Ontario hospitals, with staff shortages and backlogged emergency rooms, has hit the streets of London with daily instances when not a single ambulance is available for calls, the union representing London medics says.
Talks Thursday last ditch effort to avoid a college strike
A strike would impact 250,000 students across the province.
Treasury Board rules against college faculty union
It said the Ontario Public Service Employees Union’s demand regarding workload is unlawful and would be “struck down under Bill 124.”
Colleges respond to looming strike threat
The body that represents Ontario’s 24 public colleges in contract talks insists it is not the one being unreasonable.
Fanshawe College professors poised to strike as employer fires back
Fanshawe College faculty and colleagues provincewide are poised to strike Friday morning as contract negotiations came to a halt this week.