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The official account for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, representing more than 180,000 members across the province. #onlab
Ontario
Joined April 2009
"We're here to say enough is enough to the corporate giants, those oligarchs, who would rather line their own pockets than protect the working conditions of their workers" @JPHornick 🔥🔥. #onpoli #cdnlab
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"You name the sector, we build the future" @JPHornick . Solidarity with college FT support staff head into a strike vote on Aug 13-15th. We will not sit back as Doug Ford and college admin try to dismantle our public college system. Your fight is our fight. #cdnpse #onpoli
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Today, 40 OPSEU/SEFPO bargaining teams representing community support workers across Ont. filed for conciliation in historic mass coordinated bargaining action. To-date, 70+ units from @OPSEU & @CUPEOntario have filed, with more to come. Read more:
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To create real change, we need to understand this history. Only then can we begin to dismantle the systems of injustice and build a fair and equal future together. /3.
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Emancipation Day celebrates Black freedom and serves as a solemn reminder of Canada’s own history of enslavement, which is still felt today. It continues to shape the anti-Black racism that exists in our government, workplaces, justice system & even within the labour movement. /2.
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August 1 is #EmancipationDay. Emancipation Day commemorates when the Slavery Abolition Act came into effect on August 1, 1884, marking the legal end to enslavement across the British Empire, including in Canada. /1
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As premiers from across Canada met, members joined @HealthCoalition, fellow unions and community allies to rally in defense of public health care. United in solidarity we sent a strong message, this is OUR public health care system and we will never stop fighting to protect it.
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We must also commit to challenging systems and structures that perpetuate discrimination and erasure. Now more than ever, we must build movements where no one is left behind and where everyone is free and safe to be their true selves. /3.
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Non-Binary Awareness Week is a time for all of us to reflect, learn, and commit to building communities, workplaces, and a union that are inclusive, safe, and affirming for people of all gender identities. /2.
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July 14–20 is Non-Binary Awareness Week. This week and every week, we stand with our non-binary members, friends and family: your experiences and identities are valid. /1
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Programs that Ontarians need are being cut. This isn’t "right sizing". It's an attempt to disassemble one of Ontario’s last public institutions. #cdnpse #cndpoli . via @torontostar.
thestar.com
While cuts largely reflect where international students have been concentrated, the fallout extends well beyond that, with few areas of study spared.
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Doug Ford wants you to believe that community support workers don’t deserve fair pay, and that it’s okay to cut services that kids, parents and grandparents rely on. Tell Doug Ford: You’re not fooling Ontario! Join the campaign now:
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RT @psac_afpc: The deep spending cuts called for by PM Carney’s government yesterday will weaken the programs that people depend on. This c….
ctvnews.ca
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, along with Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali, issued letters to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet on Monday, asking them to present plans by the...
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Yesterday, workers, students, and parents came together to give @fordnation notice: this fall, we’re coming together to demand justice for our community colleges. We will do whatever it takes - because it affects all our futures. #ONpoli #ONpse. Read more:
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RT @Prof_Savage: Remember a few months back when Doug Ford said he'd do everything in his power to protect Ontario workers?. Well here's at….
thestar.com
Post-secondary layoffs and program cuts — spread across 24 public colleges — have hit both urban and rural communities and nearly every discipline.
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John Tibbits, President of Conestoga College, took home $636,106 last year. Now, the college is rationing air conditioning to "cost-save" in the midst of a heat wave, with staff raising alarm about growing temperatures inside. Dystopian. #ONpoli #ONpse.
kitchener.citynews.ca
Employees at the college's Doon and Milton campuses allege that the college has reduced air conditioning usage as a cost-saving measure.
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“What we’re seeing is a classic playbook of starving the system of resources, forcing people out and worsening conditions. We will have lost nearly 10,000 jobs with no public scrutiny. We’re looking for some accountability.” #ONpoli #ONpse.
theglobeandmail.com
More than 8,000 jobs have been or will be lost since Ottawa capped number of international study permits in January, 2024, report finds
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Addressing these issues is an urgent priority to keep workers and communities safe. We will not accept concessions – it’s time to finally fix the #CrisisInCorrections! /3.
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Correctional workers know first-hand the issues inside correctional institutions:.✖ Unsafe staffing levels. ✖Increasing workplace violence. ✖A worker mental health crisis, resulting in 11 worker suicides since 2021. ✖ Over 45 job positions that don’t offer a livable wage.
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