AMAPCEO stands with OPSEU workers in a campaign “Worth Fighting For”

Over the past few weeks, over 4,000 OPSEU community, health and social services workers have been taking job action to fight for the future of the services they provide, as part of OPSEU’s “Worth Fighting For” coordinated bargaining campaign. Thousands of workers at nearly two dozen community organizations funded by the provincial government are now on strike or locked out.

Though these workers provide critical frontline services that the people of Ontario rely on, they are some of the lowest paid workers in the public sector. They are also one of the few groups who were affected by Bill 124 and who have not received a remedy.

Many of these striking OPSEU members work shoulder-to-shoulder with AMAPCEO members in the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, or at organizations supported by AMAPCEO Donations and Sponsorship program, such as Sistering. 

AMAPCEO stands in solidarity with these OPSEU workers. They deserve fair pay, remedy for the negative impacts of unconstitutional Bill 124, and improved funding for the services they provide. 

Show your support

To demonstrate our support, AMAPCEO has already signed a solidarity petition, and President Dave Bulmer will be part of a contingent of AMAPCEO activists and members joining OPSEU leadership at an upcoming picket. We’ll share more details when confirmed.

We strongly encourage AMAPCEO members, especially those whose Districts have donated to the affected organizations or who work in ministries with striking workers, to take time out to show your support and stand with these striking workers. You can find a picket near you using OPSEU’s picket finder online. You can also send an email to your MPP and to Premier Ford demonstrating your support for your OPSEU peers. 

All public sector workers have first-hand experience of this government’s austerity, its erosion of public services, and its violation of our rights as union members. But these frontline workers still fighting for a fair deal and a remedy for lost wages, and AMAPCEO is proud to show our support for their fight.