OPSEU Local 562

Sign the Petition Stop the Shutdown of GBC’s EAP Program – Education Is a Right, Not a Business

Petition · Stop the Shutdown of GBC’s EAP Program – Education Is a Right, Not a Business - Toronto, Canada · www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... --- SIGN BELOW 👇

This can't be happening! @humberpoly.bsky.social needs to do better. Sign this petition to protect Accessibility Learning Services for our students: opseu562.org/petition

HUMBER SLASHES STUDENT SERVICES

Help defend accessibility services and protect our counselling faculty!

www.opseu562.org/petition

We are inviting all full-time, partial-load, part-time and sessional members to join us for our next general membership meeting on Tuesday, May 13.

Please join us in electing our representatives and welcoming our part-time and sessional colleagues to OPSEU562!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 6:30PM - College Part Time/Sessional - Welcome to OPSEU/SEFPO!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 6:30PM - College Part Time/Sessional - Welcome to OPSEU/SEFPO!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

REMINDER: Welcome town-hall for newly unionized part-time/sessional faculty! Join us to learn more about unionization and meet your representatives. Full-time and partial load faculty, please help welcome our part-time and sessional colleagues.

Click here to register: tinyurl.com/m4j82w33

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 6:30PM - College Part Time/Sessional - Welcome to OPSEU/SEFPO!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 6:30PM - College Part Time/Sessional - Welcome to OPSEU/SEFPO!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

We're inviting newly unionized part-time and sessional college faculty to a welcome meeting on April 30th from 6:30PM to 8PM. This will be your opportunity to learn about about unionization and meet your representatives and colleagues. Click here to register: opseu-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Labour, student, and post-secondary advocacy leaders jointly call for funding public education as a buffer to U.S. tariff fallout: “Our college system can be the lifeboat.” A joint release between OPSEU/SEFPO, Canadian Federation of Students – Ontario, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), and Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL).   Toronto, ON ...

“We have an opportunity to course-correct: fund the system, end profiteering, and expand access to post-secondary education instead of curtailing it.”

opseu.org/news/labour-...

After 20 year battle, over 16,000 part-time and sessional college faculty across Ontario join OPSEU/SEFPO in one of largest organizing drives in Canadian history Toronto, ON – College faculty union leaders had much to celebrate around the historic table at the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) today. After a long day sorting through thousands of ballots, w...

26. A massive union victory in Ontario as 16,000 part-time college faculty unionize after a 20 year battle. opseu.org/news/after-2... #MovementWins2025

A purple and yellow graphic showing two buildings and a silhouetted figure going through an open doorway. The graphic announces a Town Hall for Part-Time and Sessional Ontario college faculty unionizing with OPSEU/SEFPO. The virtual event takes place March 19 at 6:30 p.m. A QR code for registration is included.

📣 Calling all faculty!
Part time and sessional faculty at Ontario's public colleges will be unionized soon!
Join us for a townhall to learn more about this exciting news!
Register at shorturl.at/qX5U7, or scan the QR code!

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College faculty and support staff union calls for $1.4 billion emergency infusion to put the brakes on growing crisis: “Colleges are the backbone of Ontario’s economy, but in Doug Ford’s Ontario, they... Toronto, ON – OPSEU/SEFPO, the union representing over 45,000 college faculty and support staff at Ontario’s 24 public colleges, is taking aim at the Ford government following more sweeping program an...

“Colleges are the backbone of Ontario’s economy, but in Doug Ford’s Ontario, they’re collateral damage.”

opseu.org/news/college...

Amazon to close Quebec facilities, insists it's not because of new union | CBC News A company spokesperson said Amazon will outsource deliveries to smaller contractors. The spokesperson insisted that the decision was tied to cost savings — not the recent unionization of about 200 emp...

So workers organize a union at Amazon in Quebec, and Amazon decides to close. This has echoes of Walmart in 2005. #canlab

Hello, blue sky! We're going to start transitioning away from the other place. Hoping to find lots of you!