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Strike Mandate Vote Print E-mail
Thursday, 07 January 2010
Strike Mandate Vote

Vote YES!
Support Your
Bargaining Team


When?

Thursday Jan 21, 2010
Vote: any time between
11:00am—10:00pm
Information Sessions:
12:00pm & 7:00pm


Where?

Legion
5603 Spring St
in Niagara Falls

For more info contact
Pati Habermann at
905-328-7134 or
 click on the PDF document
 at the top left corner of the website.


Conciliation Print E-mail
Sunday, 20 December 2009

CONCILIATION - DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED!

Check this website for updates which will be posted on a weekly basis once we have dates.

Bargaining Bulletin

What is Conciliation?


Say No to the HST Print E-mail
Saturday, 24 October 2009

Say No to the HST

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
11:45 am
front lawn
Main Legislative Building

Ontarians will be coming to Queen's Park next wednesday to let Premier McGuinty know that they want him to stop the implementation of the HST.

If you can make it, I invite you to come and add your voice to the hundreds who will be calling on the government to abandon the HST.

The rally is being organized by a coalition of concerned retirees who don't want to see their everyday costs increased by the HST.

I encourage you to support the rally, if you can make it to Queen's Park on October 28, please let the McGuinty government know that you don't support the HST.

Andrea Horwath
Leader, Ontario's NDP

 

Among the groups attending the rally:

Municipal Retirees Organization Ontario
Police Pensioners Association of Ontario
Association of Retired Fire Fighters of Ontario
Police Retirees of Ontario
For more information, contact

pbaileyn606@rogers.com
NDPCaucusOutreach@ndp.on.ca


Survey Says... Print E-mail
Friday, 09 October 2009
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Toronto, ON, March 12, 2009 – Employers take note: if your employees are working longer hours without reward, 62 per cent of them will find ways to reward themselves at your expense, according to the ADP Time & Attendance Poll. The poll, commissioned by ADP Canada, revealed that 21 per cent of Canadians are now working more hours per week to keep up, and among them, four in 10 (37 per cent) receive no additional compensation or time off.

“If you don’t compensate people who are working extra hard, many will reward themselves — at your expense,” said Heather Nairn-Rand, ADP Canada’s Vice President, Marketing. “Time and attendance solutions, such as those offered by ADP, level the playing field for both employers and employees by creating a clear and accountable reporting system for both parties.”
 

According to the ADP Time & Attendance Poll, employees who take their own payback for extra work typically do the following:

  • Leave early (53 per cent)
  • Work at a more leisurely pace (27 per cent)
  • Take sick days when they are not sick (23 per cent)
  • Take longer lunch breaks (21 per cent)
  • Arrive late (16 per cent)


GMs message to staff Print E-mail
Wednesday, 22 July 2009


James Randi Print E-mail
Sunday, 05 July 2009

Mr. X

On February 7th 1975, an unidentified man (Mr. X) working for a Toronto film company was dangled over the precipice of the Horseshoe Falls at the Table Rock by a crane for five minutes while strapped into a strait jacket.

This stunt was performed for a television program and permission to conduct this stunt was received from the Niagara Parks Commission.


Morale Print E-mail
Monday, 25 May 2009


March Photo Print E-mail
Sunday, 17 May 2009




OPSEU LOCAL 217 and WORKERS UNITED LOCAL 2347 March, May 17, 2009.

More Photos

Kim Craitor's Speech

Peter Kormos' Speech


Budget 2009 Print E-mail
Tuesday, 31 March 2009


Integrity Commission Report Print E-mail
Saturday, 28 March 2009


We Stand With Diane Print E-mail
Tuesday, 10 March 2009

We Stand With Diane



We are standing together for justice.

We are standing with Diane.


Every worker has the fundamental right to freely participate in a union.

Diane has worked as a hotel worker in St. Catharines, Ontario and has had a clean record. Last summer she decided that the best way to solve some of the problems that she and her co-workers were facing was to form a union. Very soon after her boss found out she was doing this, she was fired.

The labour board ordered that the employer take Diane back pending a hearing but the damage had been done. The union effort was over and the employer began a campaign
to intimidate and isolate Diane.

If bosses are allowed to get away with firing workers for starting a union, the right to a union becomes meaningless. Stand with us, stand for the right to organize.

To show her your support, please visit:
IStandWithDiane.ca


Donald C. MacDonald Speaks about the Niagara Parks - 1963 Print E-mail
Sunday, 01 March 2009

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Ontario Legislature - March 7, 1963

Mr. MacDonald: I would like to say just one word about the Niagara Parks Commission. The government had a policy, make no mistake about it. It is a leftover, but as far as the Niagara Parks Commission is concerned, its policy is a little family affair. In fact, I am quoting from the former Prime Minister of this province, who when we drew attention to the fact that it did not tender in the normal procedure, and it did not do a lot of things in accordance with normal business procedure, said, "Well, let us not interfere. Down in the Niagara Peninsula, it is a little family affair. Just let them run their own business— local autonomy and all the rest of it."

This is in fact what it is. What happens, as far as the Niagara Parks Commission is concerned, is that a public property is handed over to a group of men who operate it virtually as private property. It is a private club, and the hon. member over here is quite correct. He speaks not without some information—because he was in there for six years —when he says that the important thing is not what happens at the meetings and what gets into the minutes, but what happens after the meetings and between the meetings, when they have a really good drink in the refectory or whatever they call it.

As far as the employees are concerned, it is like a feudal domain. They are hired at the pleasure of the people who, as private individuals, are using public property. They are fired if it suits their purpose. Maybe you have to put the former hon. Minister of Labour completely out to pasture. Maybe that is the answer. Get somebody else in there.


Niagara Parks Century Club 2009 Print E-mail
Sunday, 01 April 2007

Niagara Parks "Century Club" 2009



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