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Mediated Talks Between NOSM and its OPSEU Staff Unit Conclude Without Settlement
Mediated talks between the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) and the School's Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Staff Unit concluded early this morning without settlement. The OPSEU Staff Unit terminated mediation talks shortly after midnight. The two parties have been meeting since October 2009 in an effort to negotiate the School's first OPSEU Staff Unit Collective Agreement. Mediated talks began on Wednesday, August 11 in Thunder Bay, assisted by a Ministry of Labour Mediator. The 152 members included in the OPSEU Staff Unit work in office, clerical, administrative, technical and service positions. This exc...
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NOSM Committed to Bargaining Process with OPSEU Staff Unit
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) and the School's Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Staff Unit have been meeting on a monthly basis, alternating between Sudbury and Thunder Bay, since October 2009 in an effort to negotiate the School's first OPSEU Staff Unit Collective Agreement. NOSM currently has a collective agreement in effect covering its faculty, librarians and professional staff, which was successfully negotiated in 2006 and renewed in 2008. After a Ministry of Labour Conciliation Officer attended the Staff Unit bargaining sessions on July 19 and 21 in Thunder Bay, OPSEU left the bargaining table a...
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NOSM Faculty Member Participates in International Collaboration on Medical Education to Improve Indigenous Health
Researchers from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand team up to tackle health questions The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce Faculty member Dr. Kristen Jacklin’s participation in a new major international collaboration launched to improve chronic disease care for Indigenous patients. Scientists will investigate similarities between Indigenous peoples and health issues. Diabetes and its prevalence in Indigenous communities is one area researchers will study with the aim to improving health in Aboriginal populations. Co-principal investigator NOSM’s Dr. Kristen Jacklin believes that “this proj...
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