Wednesday, January 12, 2022
AMAPCEO leadership and its Bargaining Team for the Ontario Public Service (OPS) are ready to start negotiations, as signalled by a formal “notice to bargain” delivered to the OPS Employer last week.
This step in the collective bargaining process indicates the union’s desire to start to meet with the employer to negotiate a new collective agreement. It is a legislated requirement.
Last week’s notice included a comprehensive initial disclosure request to the Employer—a long list of data sets to help further inform the union’s position going into negotiations.
From here, the union and the OPS Employer will work out the mechanics of how negotiations will operate this time around. Negotiations are expected to begin with the trading of initial proposals by early March.
The OPS Collective Agreement ends March 31, 2022, and after that, existing terms and conditions remain frozen in place until a new collective agreement comes into effect. This round of bargaining will be conducted under the dark shadow of Bill 124, the government’s unconstitutional wage-restraint legislation that affects more than one million of Ontario’s public servants.