EMERGENCY BULLETIN Contact your Union Executive ! TAKE ACTION TO DEFEND YOUR BARGAINING UNIT ! As you know, OPSEU has undertaken the important task of organizing part-time and sessional faculty, two groups that were previously forbidden by law from organizing. Unfortunately, a misguided campaign is currently underway to add these two groups to our bargaining unit. A single bargaining unit would serve neither their interests nor ours. For full-time and partial-load faculty, this proposal threatens the gains that we have won through bargaining and three strikes over the past 41 years. It is crucial to let OPSEU know you do not support this initiative. If OPSEU combines sessional, part-time, partial-load and full-time faculty In a single bargaining unit, we, the full-time and partial-load faculty, would instantly become the minority. The proposed unit would add to our numbers all Continuing Education teachers, as well as all the daytime part-time and sessional faculty. These part timers would outnumber current full-time and partial-load faculty by about two to one (2:1). This composition would have a devastating impact on our negotiations.  Decades of bargaining wins would be at risk, especially in workload.  Future bargaining would focus on part-time issues and objectives, not on our needs.  Part-time employees have a very very different relationship with the employer.  They should be unionized, but provided with their own bargaining unit, just as support staff and faculty are separated. In lobbying for a single bargaining unit, the Chair of the Academic Division of OPSEU claims to speak "on behalf of our Divisions" (the faculty and support-staff divisions). This is untrue.In fact, full-time and partial-load faculty in the province were neither informed of this "single bargaining unit" option nor canvassed for their opinion on its merits. In addition, in June, the union delegates representing the 24 colleges voted against supporting the concept of a single bargaining unit. Yet, their directive is going unheeded by the CAAT-Academic Chair who has arranged to meet with the EBM while most of us are on vacation and unreachable by our locals. Let OPSEU know that you oppose this effort to ram the part-time workers into our bargaining unit.  Please contact your OPSEU Executive Board Members (EBM) by phone, email, or both.  The EBM will be discussing this matter on Monday, August 11.  Write and/or call them NOW!!! Contact Information Here is a list of the 21 Executive Board Members (EBM) that you can "cut-and-paste" into your e-mail: relliot@sympatico.ca gino@ciaccess.com lbrownebm@sympatico.ca eddiea@sympatico.ca chegrim@sympatico.ca union@castle.on.ca doris.middleton@sympatico.ca claireEBMR3@sympatico.ca prout@opseu.org wthomas@opseu.org lynn.orzel@rogers.com davidlundy@sympatico.ca ted@opseu560.org nancypridham@sympatico.ca drapaport@opseu.org brownsue@sympatico.ca mandydumais@sympatico.ca peterw@ntl.sympatico.ca clappbr@shaw.ca tockerja@tbaytel.net opseusandra@shaw.ca Below is the full contact information for each EBM: Source: http://www.opseu.org/ContactUs/executiveboard.htm Region 1 - London, Sarnia, Windsor Ron Elliot relliot@sympatico.ca 519 646-3252 (work) 519 438-4117 (home) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5813 Gino Franche Regional Vice-President gino@ciaccess.com 800 265-2705 x234 (work) 519 352-9241 (fax) ( 519 359-9197 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5811 Laurie Brown lbrownebm@sympatico.ca 1-888-661-6167 x468 (work) 519 280-2151(cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5812 Region 2 - Niagara, Guelph, Hamilton, Owen Sound Eduardo (Eddy) Almeida eddiea@sympatico.ca 905 574-5943 (home) 905 574-5704 (fax) 289 439-2135 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5823 Michael Grimaldi chegrim@sympatico.ca 905 704-3037 (work) 905 701-8007 (home) 905 701-8303 (fax) 289-213-3088 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5822 Jay Jackson Regional Vice-President union@castle.on.ca 905 845-9430 x2320 (work) 905 877-9050 (home) 905 815-4076 (fax) 905 536-6476 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5821 Region 3 - Orillia, Parry Sound, Peterborough Doris Middleton Regional Vice-President doris.middleton@sympatico.ca 705 325-7408 x4426 (work) 705 325-3420 (fax) 705 238-8003 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5832 Claire Rowett claireEBMR3@sympatico.ca 705 755-2459 (work) 905 797-3173 (home) 905 375-7368 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5833 Patty Rout prout@opseu.org 416 443-8888 x8303 (work) 416 443-0017 (fax) 905 439-8044 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 8304 Region 4 - Ottawa, Kingston, Cornwall Smokey Thomas (OPSEU President) wthomas@opseu.org 416 443-8888 x8300 (work) 416 443-8713 (fax) 866 264-4982 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 8301 Lynn Orzel lynn.orzel@rogers.com 613 747-7800 x2389 (work) 613 371-7970 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5843 David Lundy davidlundy@sympatico.ca 613 269-3045  (fax) 613 213-1953 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5842 Region 5 - Toronto Ted Montgomery ted@opseu560.org 416 495-1599 (work) 416 492-9717 (home) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5853 Nancy Pridham nancypridham@sympatico.ca 416 532-3354 (fax) 416 407-4594 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5852 David Rapaport Regional Vice-President drapaport@opseu.org 416 325-2282 (work) 416 651-1659 (home) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5851 Region 6 - Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, North Bay Sue Brown Regional Vice-President brownsue@sympatico.ca 705 474-1200 (work) 705 729-1442 (home) 705 729-1507 (fax) 705 499-5129 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5861 Amanda (Mandy) Dumais mandydumais@sympatico.ca 705 564-4364 (work) 705 897-3948 (home) 705 929-4364 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5862 Peter Wall peterw@ntl.sympatico.ca 705 372-2212 (work) 705 362-0282 (home) 705 372-3310 (cell) 705 372-2245 (fax) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5863 Region 7 - Thunder Bay, Dryden, Kenora Brenda Clapp clappbr@shaw.ca 807 343-2725 (work) 807 345-2971 (home) 807 345-1034 (fax) 807 624-8952 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5872 James Tocker Regional Vice-President tockerja@tbaytel.net 807 473-2054 (work) 807 767-3888 (fax) 807 627-0625 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5871 Sandra Snider opseusandra@shaw.ca 807 343-7462 (work) 807 345-7904 (home) 807 344-6725 (fax) 807 626-0740 (cell) OPSEU Direct 1-800-268-7376, 5873

Local 560 Election Results Congratulations! • Officers •  President: Ted Montgomery •  Vice-President: Larry Olivo •  Employment Equity V. P.: Beth Agnew •  Health & Safety Officer: Muriel McKenna •  Secretary: Patricia Clark •  Treasurer: Paul Matson •  Chief Steward: Diane Kashin •  Delegates Larry Olivo, Patricia Clark, Beth Agnew, Sharon McCleave, Jonathon Singer and Alternates (4) Paul Matson, Romel Cipriani, Dave Finlay, Ann Moorhouse, Joanne Kurtz •  Trustees Joanne Kurtz, Joan Emans

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