What's Happening

July 1, 2025 Salary increases and lump sum payment

As a result of these negotiations, a wage increase of 3% effective July 1, 2025 is being applied to eligible OPSEU Unit 1 employees.

Eligible employees will receive the applicable retroactive pay on or before the July 3, 2026 pay. Eligible employees will also receive the increase that is effective July 1, 2026 on the July 17, 2026 pay.

Coffee & Conversations

Upcoming dates:

Wednesday, July 7
Thursday, July 16

Time: 10 AM - 2 PM

Location: Union Office - POD 247-A

Happy Pride Month from Local 596

As we move forward in our commitment to our membership to do something we’re celebrating this month to highlight what the Queer community has done for our society and for the labour movement.

We’ll start our inaugural post with rights and protections in our Collective Agreement:

In recognition of gender equity we’ve ensured that parental leave(s) recognize all the ways to have a family

Maternity leave
Parental leave
Primary Caregiver/Adoption Leave
Our benefits also include Gender Affirming Procedures and IVF ($25,000 for a lifetime)
Benefits also cover spouses both common law and legally married.
In 2014 we updated our CBA to include general neutral terms

Join us for Rainbow Dance Party & Rainbow Ride + Core

Group fitness is hosting FREE events aimed at the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and allies. Please join us! We will be at the Ranbow Dance Party on June 8th and June 15th.

Rainbow Dance Party

Mondays from 1:00 - 1:45 PM

Rainbow Ride + Core

Thursdays from 6:15 - 7:00 PM

Mzawe Kiing Anishinaabek Giizis / National Indigenous Peoples Month

In June, we celebrate Mzawe Kiing Anishinaabek Giizis (National Indigenous Peoples Month).

On Wednesday, we attended the Indigenous Healing Garden Planting Day at TRSM. Together, we planted native pollinators, Indigenous plant medicines, flowers and herbs into the future garden. It was a fantastic event where we honoured, learned and connected as a community. We are pleased to introduce our new plant babies: Violette, Vinny, Betty and Vinny among many others.

TMU is hosting events across campus, and all are welcome.

Please register for the National Indigenous Peoples Month events by clicking the provided links. For an overview calendar of events and additional registration links for upcoming Indigenous Events, please refer to the full schedule and the downloadable calendar.