AMAPCEO is a member-driven, politically non-partisan union of more than 14,000 professional employees, dedicated to providing outstanding representation and other services to our members. We protect members’ rights, defend Ontario’s public services, and advocate for better working conditions for everyone.
Established in 1992, AMAPCEO has built a strong record of negotiating innovative collective agreements, developing a collegial, problem-solving approach to dispute resolution, and advocating for a professional public service.
Members include: policy analysts, financial analysts, auditors, economists, mediators, arbitrators, educators, information technology professionals, scientists, chaplains, veterinarians, program supervisors, child and youth advocates, clinical coordinators, psychiatric patient advocates, media relations and communications officers, epidemiologists, arts granting officers and many others.
The union also represents senior economic officers in the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, who are based in Canadian high commissions, embassies and consulates abroad.
AMAPCEO was established in 1992 as a grassroots organization to represent a group of employees in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) who, at that time, were excluded from collective bargaining. In 1993, AMAPCEO negotiated a Social Contract sectoral framework agreement with the provincial government on behalf of all excluded employees. When amendments to the Crown Employees Collective Bargaining Act were adopted, extending collective bargaining rights to some previously-excluded employees, the union signed up a sufficient number of members to achieve voluntary recognition as a bargaining agent in 1995. An interim agreement was adopted in 1996 and a first full Collective Agreement was ratified in 1998.
AMAPCEO has grown to be the second-largest union in the OPS—tripling its original membership at certification—and expanding outside the OPS to represent six bargaining units in the Broader Public Sector. Five units consist of employees whose work was divested from the OPS under successor rights and one—the Ontario Arts Council—was independently organized after approaching AMAPCEO for assistance. (A seventh BPS unit, the Ontario Racing Commission, was also independently organized and represented by AMAPCEO until the ORC's 2016 merger with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.)
Our 25th Anniversary video summarizes our founding, history, and development.
The majority of our members work directly for the Government of Ontario (as part of the Ontario Public Service) in every ministry along with a number of agencies, boards and commissions—in over 130 communities across the province and in 12 cities outside Canada.
We also represent employees in six bargaining units in the Broader Public Sector:
AMAPCEO is a member-driven, politically non-partisan union of more than 14,000 professional employees, dedicated to providing outstanding representation and other services to our members.
Learn more about who we represent, how the union is governed, and more.
From knowing your fundamental rights at work to assisting you through any issues that occur in your workplace, the information here gives you answers and tells you who to contact for more help.
AMAPCEO is a strong union of professionals – with expertise in collective bargaining, dispute resolution, and the design and delivery of public services for all Ontarians.
We work for our professional members, who deliver important public services to the province; for all Ontarians who rely on public services; and for all workers who seek equity and security.
The bigger we get and the more involved our members become... the stronger our organization is.
In this section, you can discover the benefits of joining AMAPCEO and submit your membership application online — including applications for associate and retiree memberships.
And you can find new ways of becoming more involved with AMAPCEO as a volunteer — helping to guide our operations and direction forward.
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You have a home position in an AMAPCEO bargaining unit as either a permanent or fixed-term employee.
You are temporarily acting in or on secondment to an AMAPCEO-represented position from a home position that is outside the bargaining unit.
You have retired or resigned from an AMAPCEO-represented home position.
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