THE OWNERS' MANUAL - OPSEU

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OPSEU’s resources include: ✓✓ A Head Office in Toronto with meeting space for member groups ✓✓ 20 fully-staffed regional offices ✓✓ 24 membership centres, either stand-alone or connected to regional offices, with meeting space and equipment for the use of union Locals ✓✓ A staff of more than 300, including specialists in bargaining, grievance handling, pensions, benefits, health and safety, pay equity, human rights, communications, campaigns, education, research, organizing and more ✓✓ A multi-million dollar strike fund to support members when required ✓✓ Experience in mobilizing members to get what they need ✓✓ A strong voice at local labour councils and larger labour organizations Who runs this operation Indirectly, you do. OPSEU’s supreme governing body is its annual Convention, held in the spring. You elect delegates to represent you at Convention, based on the size of your Local. Locals with up to 150 members have one delegate; Locals with more than 2,300 have nine. The co-workers you elect to Convention set union policy, approve the annual budget and revise the Constitution. Every two years, Local delegates also elect the members of the union’s Executive Board at regional meetings. In election years, your Convention delegates elect the union’s President and First Vice-President/Treasurer from among the elected board members. Between Conventions, the Executive Board runs the union. But it begins with the Locals. In OPSEU’s democratic framework, Locals hold the keys to power. Other structures within the union bridge similar workplaces, share common experiences, and draw Locals together within a geographic area. These links support Locals and give them wider influence. 2 THE OWNERS’ MANUAL www.joinopseu.org
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Page 4 and 5: Table of Contents OPSEU, The Big Pi
Page 8 and 9: Who pays for all this Again, you do
Page 10 and 11: OPSEU has three kinds of Locals: 1.
Page 12 and 13: How do Locals work For starters, de
Page 14 and 15: Linking Locals by workplace commona
Page 16 and 17: Divisional Councils create broader
Page 18 and 19: OPSEU’s seven regions A democrati
Page 20 and 21: Specific interests Other ways to ge
Page 22 and 23: Communication Unique to OPSEU is a
Page 24 and 25: Connect with OPSEU OPSEU is organiz
Page 26 and 27: OPSEU’s Head Office The union’s
Page 28 and 29: Region 1 Region 1 OPSEU in the Regi
Page 30 and 31: Region 2 Region 2 Owen Sound Milton
Page 32 and 33: Region 3 Region 3 Region 3 Number o
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