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2000's
2002
2nd OPS strike
2000
Negotiations section broken into sectors
- OPS Negotiations
- Education
- Health Care sector
- Justice Sector
- Social Services
- General Sector
- Culture Sector
”Network for Better Contracts”
90's
1999
OPSEU Campaign ;Strategic Voting; in provincial election
1996
1st OPS strike - most significant event in the history of OPSEU
1995
Government legislates Essential Service in CECBA
April - Leah Casselman elected President - 1st woman president of OPSEU
1994
Joint control over OPS pension plan
1993
OPS gain political rights - right to strike - 1st significant change since 1985 in CECBA
Right to strike
1991
1st province wide ambulance contract 20 year campaign
1990
September - Fred Upshaw elected President - first black person to head a major Canadian union
OPSEU forms alliance with teachers and doctors in provincial election campaign
80's
1984
CAAT strike
James Clancy elected President
PASS campaign - Power and Action through Steward Skills
1982
CECBA revised to allow OPSEU to negotiate technological change
Inflation Restraint Act (wage controls)
1981
$6 Million strike fund established
1980
Provincial Women's Committee was formed
BPS organizing broadened
70's
1979
Illegal Corrections strike
OPSEU joins NUPGE - rejoins CLC and OFL
CAAT strike - 1st OPSEU major strike
1976
Jake Norman's position of General Manager is abolished - all staff report directly to the President
N.U.P.G.E. created under CLC
OPSEU first in Canada to appoint a Male Equal Opportunities Coordinator
1975
Darrow elected President - 1st time members, instead of Board, elected the President
O.P.S.E.U. replaces C.S.A.O.
Bill 179 - insignificant changes to CECBA
Grievance Settlement Board (G.S.B.) replaces Public Service Grievance Board.
Free the Servants; campaign expanded into political area to coincide with September 1975 provincial election
1974
Ron Morris dismissed
Jake Norman promoted to General Manager; Gemmel resigns; Darrow steps up from 1st Vice President
Substantial wage increases achieved in bargaining “No Contract - No Work” campaign
Special General Meeting delegates approved $600,00 “Free the Servants”; campaign
OPSEU wins right to bargain job classifications, promotions and layoffs, successor rights through $600,000 “Free the Servants” Campaign
Colleges Collective Bargaining Act brings provincial wide bargaining CAAT “A” & “S”
1973
Special General Meeting May 13
Ron Morris hired as General Manager
Purchase of C.S.A.O. Head Office, 1901 Yonge Street - $2.5 million for building, $2 million for land
C.S.A.O. National dissolved; hospital paramedics certified under C.S.A.O.
1972
C.S.A.O. National brings in CAAT “A”
C.S.A.O. reorganized under Ministry divisions
C.E.C.B.A introduced (Crown Employees Collective Bargaining Act) Final Reading - May 30 2972
CECBA makes clear strikes were banned in the OPS Management Rights - Exclusive function of the Employer
- right to determine employment
- appointment
- complement
- organization
- work methods and procedures
- kinds and location of equipment
- discipline and termination of employment
- assignment
- classification
- job evaluation system
- merit system
- training and development
- appraisal
- superannuation (pension)
- principles and standards governing promotion, demotion, transfer, layoff and reappointment
All of the above could not be bargained or come within the jurisdiction of a board. The only amendments to the original Bill's exclusions -The right to grieve management’s decisions related to dismissal, appraisal and classification and the right to bargain mileage rates
1971
C.S.A.O. begins organizing Hospital Labs and Ambulance Groups
C.F.G.E.O. (Canadian Federation of General Employees of Ontario) predecessor to N.U.P.G.E. (National Union of Public and General Employees)
Government announces 5% wage controls on OPS
CAAT “A”; (Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology “Academic” certified by C.S.A.O.
1970
Divisions were created in C.S.A.O's structure
60's
1969
CAAT “S” negotiates first agreement
Judge Little report released - adopts Rand Formula Judge Little's mandate - May 1969
- Automatic dues check-off (Justice Ivan) Rand Formula 1945
- all bargaining units paid dues except those that opted out at the time
- Security of Bargaining Agent - exclusive right to represent the entire civil service
- Who belonged in a bargaining unit and what could be bargained, including bargaining unit system and who was excluded (23% excluded)
- Right to strike was not in this Terms of Reference or Mandate
- compulsory arbitration was the order of the day
- Management Rights recommendations - much of which was enshrined in CECBA (pensions were to be non-negotiable)
By-Law 66 passed
1967
Judge Walter Little appointed to inquire into collective bargaining after pressure from C.S.A.O.
1st non-OPS negotiated agreement for Niagara Parks Commission
1966
C.S.A.O. registered as a Union to represent Department of Agriculture staff transferred to Guelph University
C.S.A.O. organizes CAAT ”S”; (Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology”;Support”) transferred from Provincial Institute of Trades
1963
C.S.A.O. pressure “;junked” Joint Advisory Council in favour of Joint Council
C.S.A.O. - 1st negotiations - OPS - Civil Service Arbitration Board created
50's
1959
OPS won right to grieve unjust actions and decisions
1956
C.L.C. (Canadian Labour Congress) formed from the TLC and CCL (Canadian Congress of Labour)
1951
C.S.A.O. new headquarters - 10 room house in downtown Toronto
1950
C.S.A.O. joins Trades & Labour Council (TLC)
40's
1948
40 C.S.A.O. Branches spread across the province
- accepted the trillium as their insignia - motto “modern, loyal and efficient”
1946
C.S.A.O. had 5,700 members - one staff – headquarters on Bay Street
1946
Rand Formula - Judge Ivan Rand - not added to the Ontario Labour Relations Act until 1980 - prior to the Rand Formula, unions collected dues from members themselves
1944
Joint Advisory Council and Civil Service Board of Review created - C.S.A.O. has equal representation
30's
Nothing happening here until 1944.
20's
1927
C.S.A.O. incorporated
1920
Superannuation Act passed - Pension Scheme becomes reality - C.S.A.O. has representation on Pension Board
- no survivor benefits
- pension kicked in at age 70
- no compulsory retirement age
- first recipient of pension - 76 year old James Clancy - $20/month
In the beginning
1912
C.S.A.O. Committee submits Employee Pension Plan to government
1911
Civil Service Association of Ontario (C.S.A.O.) formed - Toronto area
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