As many of you know the OMERS Sponsors Board wants to make changes to your pension that will have a significantly negative impact on your retirement. You can find the detail here.

There are a number of things we need to do to stop these changes from going ahead.

1. Send a new email to the chairs of the OMERS Sponsors Board and let them know you do not want them to go ahead with the proposed changes. Click here to send the email.




2. Share this email with all the other members in your local so they know what’s happening and can also send an email to the Sponsors Board.




3. Write to your employer right away to let them know that if they are planning to hold any workplace OMERS meetings that you expect them to notify and include the local union.




4. Let us know immediately if a session is being organized in any of your work places. Or, if you find out that one of your members has been contact by OMERS to participate in a consultation of any kind – let us know. Email us at OMERS@cupe.on.ca and we will make sure you and your members have the accurate information you need and have good questions to ask during their presentation.




5. Hold a local membership meeting on the future of OMERS, early in the fall to make sure all your members know what is going on. Once you book a meeting email us at OMERS@cupe.on.ca and we can provide you with a PowerPoint presentation to show your members and possibly a guest speaker if you want.

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