You came out and you voted....results below

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 1999

OPSEU members ratify public service contract

TORONTO – Front-line workers in the Ontario Public Service have ratified a three-year collective agreement with the Ontario government.
In province-wide voting March 24-26, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union voted 82 per cent in favour of accepting the Central agreement signed March 18. Voter turnout was 61 per cent, with over 29,500 employees voting out of a total bargaining unit of 48,000.

Vote results in the six wage categories were as follows:

Administrative  87%

Correctional   63%

Institutional & Health Care   82%

Office Administration  86%

Operational & Maintenance  83%

Technical   81%

TIME TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND BEGIN ANEW

there is a provincial election coming very soon

If you think OPSEU union members got a lot of money in this contract, I invite you to link here. You will need Acrobat Reader. Check out Ontario Public Service Salaries. When you read this you will wish you had of gone to Law School.......

On behalf of jail guards across Ontario, I'd like to personally acknowledge the hard work our Bargaining Team has done to get us this far. I can only imagine what you were up against judging from the remarks made by the Honourable Minister (highlighted on the next page)in the press.

THANKS TEAM !