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The U of T Casual Tentative agreement was ratified on February 28, 2024.    You can review the Collective Bargaining Ratification Highlight package here.

  USWLocal 1998 Stands in Solidarity with CUPE   USW Local 1998 Our union colleagues in CUPE 1230, CUPE 3261 and CUPE 3902 Unit 1 & Unit 5 are currently bargaining with the University of Toronto to establish new contracts for their members. Members in these units are library workers, bus drivers, campus mail workers,

The Local WOS Committee met on February 3, 2023, and discussed adapting a series of publications on burnout created by the Local 1944 WOS Committee for Local 1998 members. These four publications raise awareness about burnout and how it can affect people at work. Local 1944 created these resources for their members in the telecommunications

A Statement on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from the Executive Committee of USW Local 1998 The Executive Committee of USW Local 1998 adds its voice to the growing call by labour organizations (including the Ontario Federation of Labour and the Toronto & York Region Labour Council), Muslim, Jewish and other faith communities, and many individuals in

The Vic Tentative agreement was ratified on October 31, 2023.     Collective Bargaining Ratification Package

The U of T Staff-Appointed tentative agreement was ratified on September 15, 2023.     Collective Bargaining Ratification Package

Here are the 2023 UofT Staff-Appointed Bargaining Committee Members: UTSG: Mary-Marta Briones-Bird Justen Bennett Audrey Fong Katrina Marshall Aziz El Mejdouby Ruxandra Pop Sukhpreet Sangha Victoria Simpson      Zack Sholdra Tamara Vickery UTM: Richard Waters UTSC: Rabia Nasir USW 1998: John Ankenman, President Local 1998. Colleen Burke, Staff Representative, Local 1998

Dear Victoria University USW Members, In a meeting this afternoon with the Victoria University administration, the Union received new information about how the University intends to handle situations in which an employee has not received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine by Monday, September 13 and has not submitted an exemption request.  The University

Dear USW Local 1998 members,  USW Local 1998 union representatives are all working remotely and responding to member concerns. The best way to contact us is via email at info@usw1998.ca or https://www.usw1998.ca/contact-us/office-staff/

We haven’t had an update on the University Pension Plan (UPP) for a while, but there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes. There are several key legal documents which must be completed by the end of the year and the labour side and management side (along with a big cohort of