Following months of anticipation, dialogue, and bargaining, the Ontario Public Service Staff Union (OPSEU) is one step nearer to strolling off the job.
On Oct. 1, the contract expired for 15,000 full-time and part-time faculty school throughout the province represented by OPSEU.
On the union’s request, the Ministry of Labour has issued a No-Board report that paved the way in which for labour disruption and picket traces as early as Jan. 4.
On Friday, the union formally issued discover that as of Jan. 9, the union will probably be taking labour motion.
OPSEU stated the next in a web based launch:
The CEC continues to desk language that works towards school pursuits at a time the place faculties are threatening frontline staff with austerity and the vast majority of programs being delivered by school who work on precarious contracts, with no job safety and little to no advantages… We love our work. We need to be in our school rooms, labs, libraries, and workplaces, supporting college students. However our work can’t come at the price of floating the faculty system on our unpaid labour: about $24,500 per school member, yearly,
Faculties are underneath monetary stress after the federal authorities slashed the variety of worldwide college students admitted to Canada every year.
OPSEU argues that the calls for positioned on its members in recent times doesn’t mirror the workload formulation developed 40 years in the past.
Graham Lloyd, the council’s CEO, stated Friday he is upset the union selected to provide discover simply days earlier than mediation was set to renew.
“We urge OPSEU to enter mediation … with extra real looking calls for in order that we are able to get a deal and keep away from an pointless strike,” he stated in an announcement. “We’re upset that OPSEU has chosen to escalate by offering discover of strike motion simply days earlier than mediation is ready to renew…”
There may be nonetheless a while for the 2 to fulfill and see eye to eye – the events will probably be assembly once more in non-binding mediation on January 6 and seven.
The union stated two weeks in the past that no actual progress had been achieved in contract negotiations, and that mediation in early December raised considerations concerning the attainable deterioration of labor situations, job safety and high quality of schooling.
– with information from London’s Daryl Newcombe, the Canadian Press
