The reforms, which involve an extensive financial audit of the union’s books, have led to recent allegations of financial misappropriation against former union executives
Attempts by new leaders of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union to reform the union’s internal culture has provoked the ire of some of the organization’s own employees in recent months.recent allegations
Last week, the union was thrust into the limelight after it sued Mr. Thomas, former vice-president and treasurer Eddy Almeida and a former administrator Maurice Gabay, alleging the trio inappropriately used millions of dollars in cash and assets for personal enrichment. Among the accusations in the lawsuit are that Mr. Thomas and Mr. Almeida took up to $670,000 from the union’s strike fund, and that Mr. Thomas transferred four union-owned vehicles to himself and his wife and son. Mr.
When Ms. Hornick was eventually elected in April of last year, she hired two outside consultancies with the approval of the union’s executive board. The first, Evenings + Weekends Consulting, was tasked with transitioning the union and its staff through a management change, and the second unnamed company was a forensic auditor entrusted to conduct a thorough audit on the union’s finances and spending patterns of previous leadership.
It had, for years, not been a pleasant workplace for some OPSEU staff, particularly younger, racialized workers, Mr. Taylor acknowledged, and he told OPSEU he wanted to review the union’s hiring and promotion process. “Labour unions, especially at the leadership level tend to be very male and very white so I wouldn’t say this is a problem unique to OPSEU.”
In late November last year, Gord Longhi, the president of the ASU, sent an e-mail to members warning them of an “unprecedented” series of suspensions of employees by OPSEU’s new leadership. In the e-mail, he called the suspensions “disturbing” and accused OPSEU’s leadership of not adequately informing the ASU about the reasons behind the employee suspensions.
“Change is obviously hard for those who may have favoured how things were, but our members sent us a strong message to change the status quo and make our union stronger, and that’s what we will do,” she said.
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