LABOUR POWER
This term describes workers joining together to negotiate better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
What is bargaining
This international holiday, celebrated on May 1, recognizes workers and the labour movement.
What is international workers day May Day
What does OPSEU stand for?
What is the Ontario Public Service Employees Union?
Name one essential service available through Sistering's 24-hour drop-in.
What are hot meals, showers, laundry, clothing, or harm reduction supplies?
This Ontario law establishes minimum employment standards, including rules on wages, vacation, public holidays, and certain job-protected leaves.
what is the Employment Standards Act?
This is the term for a workplace organization that represents workers and advocates for their rights
What is a labour union
In 1872, Toronto printers fought for this shorter workday, helping inspire Canada's early labour movement.
what is the 9 hour work day ?
In what year was OPSEU formally established under its current English name, replacing the Civil Service Association of Ontario?
What is 1975?
What approach recognizes that people have different experiences of oppression based on overlapping identities and social circumstances?
what is intersectionality ?
This Ontario law establishes workplace health and safety requirements and provides workers with the right to know about hazards, participate in safety matters, and refuse unsafe work under specified conditions.
what is the occupational health and safety act ?
This action involves workers collectively refusing to work to pressure an employer during a labour dispute
What is a strike
Canadian postal workers secured 17 weeks of paid maternity leave after a nationwide strike
what is the 1981 – National Maternity Leave Strike- postal worker
What is the name for a formal process through which a union member can challenge certain employer decisions under the collective agreement?
what is a grievance?
What approach to substance use focuses on reducing negative consequences, supporting safety, and respecting individual choices without requiring abstinence?
what is harm reduction
legal body that acts like a court. If you believe your human rights were violated, you file an application directly here. holds mediations and hearings, and can order compensation or remedies
human rights tribunal of Ontario
This principle means workers performing work of equal value should receive equal pay, regardless of gender or other protected grounds.
What is equal pay for work of equal value?
Thanks to successful organizing, governments in three of Canada’s largest provinces – Alberta, Ontario and BC – are all in the process of implementing a new wage floor of $15/hour
15 and fairness campaign
According to OPSEU/SEFPO's Constitution, name one of the union's stated purposes that goes beyond negotiating wages.
What is defending members against harassment and discrimination, protecting health and safety, advancing human rights, or defending the right to strike?
textile studio supporting women and gender-diverse individuals affected by homelessness, poverty, trauma, and social isolation by providing alternative economic and community development opportuniti
What is spun studio
this coalition of labour groups argued that the law (bill 124) infringed upon Section 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees freedom of association, by substantially interfering with free collective bargaining
what is the Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)
This form of power occurs when workers, community members, and organizations join forces to pressure decision-makers and fight for systemic change.
What is collective or solidarity-based power?
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, enacted in 1982, has entrenched the constitutional freedom of association. This right was interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2007 to include the right of employees to associate to achieve workplace goals without employer interference. The Supreme Court further held in 2015 that the constitutional right to freedom of association also includes the right to strike. (The right to unionize)
2015
OPSEU/SEFPO offers weekend training courses for activists at locations across the province, with expenses paid for by ?
what is the Education Fund
Sistering workers are on strike because of this bill that capped workers pay at 1% in 2019 and was later found unconstitutional. However, workers at Sistering are still not paid a fair wage dating back 6 years
what is bill 124?
the year that bill 124 struck down Supreme Court of Canada affirms that it violates the charter of rights and freedoms in respect to unionized employees
what is February 12, 2024