If ratified by both parties, the renewal of the contract extends the current central collective agreement by three years until March 31, 2022. 5. OPSEU and OHA have been negotiating a new collective agreement since March 2002. They could not agree on a collective agreement. Labelle, who is also president of the union`s professional hospital division, said the interim agreement reinforces OPSEU`s position as a leader in the representation of hospital professionals in Ontario. 3. Article 11 of the HLDAA provides that workers covered by this status cannot be put on strike or excluded. If the parties fail to reach an agreement on a collective agreement, the dispute must be resolved through binding arbitration. This regulation – which is stagnating or blocked and, if necessary, a binding arbitration procedure – is one of the main features of the special legislation that applies to labour relations in the hospital sector in Ontario.

4. The OHA is a voluntary employer organization that conducts collective bargaining on behalf of forty Ontario hospitals. OPSEU represents more than 5,500 health professionals in the 40 OHA hospitals. The interim renewal of the contract with OPSEU hospital professionals is in keeping with all the provisions of the current collective agreement, which was concluded 18 months ago, and provides for annual wage increases of 1.75 per cent as of April 1, 2019. Click here for the provisional renewal agreement. A planned release on Thursday of diagnostic staff from the sault area hospital and 39 other Health Facilities in Ontario is an „illegal strike,“ the Ontario Labor Relations Council ruled today. Hospital professionals represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) have been granted an interim extension of the contract with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA). 8. On the morning of Monday, February 10, 2002, a hearing on this case began and ended this afternoon.

During the hearing, the OHA, OPSEU and the Attorney General of Ontario provided the Board with documents, evidence and information on what has happened so far between the parties and what is expected to happen on Thursday, February 13, 2003. The Attorney General of Canada was informed of the hearing and refused to participate. All parties had the opportunity to comment before the Board of Directors on whether OPSEU had in fact called for an illegal strike on Thursday, 13 February 2003. In addition, all parties had the opportunity to make arguments about what the Board of Directors should do when it found that OPSEU had called for an illegal strike on Thursday, February 13, 2003. Workers and parties should be aware that the employer can obtain a number of remedies in the event of an illegal strike: the judgment asks the Ontario Public Service Employees Union to stop authorizing, encouraging or assisting its members to participate in the planned „emergency day“ and to refrain from doing so. 9.