Introduction:

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union is one of Canada's most democratic and dynamic unions. With approximately 115,000 full- and part-time members, nearly 500 locals, and 35 Regional Offices and Membership Centres across Ontario, we're the third largest union in the province. This means OPSEU can bargain from a position of real power.
We stand up for the rights of our members, both on the job and in our communities. We are dedicated to high standards of public service and good laws that support working people.

OPSEU divides the province into seven regions. The first digit of the local number tells what region it is in. Local 123 is in Region 1, Local 234 in Region 2 and so on. Every two years, delegates from Locals in each region meet to elect three members to the union's provincial Executive Board; one of whom is also elected as the Regional Vice-President. The OPSEU President and First Vice-President/Treasurer are full-time positions elected to two-year terms from among the board members at the annual convention. The seven regional vice-presidents, plus the president and first vice-president/ treasurer, form the Executive Committee.
The OPSEU head office is located in Toronto. Regional Offices are located in Brockville, Dryden, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Niagara, North Bay, Orillia, Ottawa, Owen Sound, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Timmins, Toronto, Whitby, and Windsor.

As a union, OPSEU's chief concern is the welfare of its members; reflected in collective agreements that set wages and working conditions, and protect job security in the wide variety of operations where OPSEU members work.
As a public service union, we are concerned with government cutbacks that erode the high standard of public services that Ontarians want and deserve.

And we are concerned with the labour legislation under which it operates. Amendments to those laws, and to other pieces of legislation affecting the workplace, health and safety and employment standards, are constant concerns.
Finally, as part of the worldwide labour movement, OPSEU believes in social unionism: the philosophy that what we desire for ourselves, we seek for all. As a result, OPSEU supports the rights of the oppressed, the handicapped and the economically disadvantaged, and works for world peace.