Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario

Infobox Union
name= AMAPCEO
country= Canada
affiliation=
members= 10,000
full_name= Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario
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founded= 1992
current=
head=
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
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office= Toronto, Ontario
people=Gary Gannage, president
website= [http://www.amapceo.on.ca www.amapceo.on.ca]
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The Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO) is a trade union representing civil servants in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

As the second largest bargaining agent in the Ontario Public Service (OPS), AMAPCEO represents 10,000 professional and supervisory civil servants who work directly for the Government of Ontario. Of Canada’s ten provinces, Ontario is the most populous (at 12.5 million in 2005, constituting 37.9 per cent of the Canadian population) and the second largest in area (1.076 million km²).

Ontario’s political system is based on the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy and the career civil service is apolitical and non-partisan, providing objective advice to, and implementing decisions of, successive governments, regardless of the political party that is elected to form the government at any given time.

AMAPCEO-represented employees work in every government ministry and in a number of agencies, boards and commissions in 136 cities and towns across Ontario and in ten cities outside Canada. They also represent employees who work in the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, which is an independent office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Approximately 60 per cent of AMAPCEO members work in the provincial capital city of Toronto. Members include policy analysts, financial analysts, auditors, economists, mediators, arbitrators, scientists, chaplains, nursing supervisors, psychologists, veterinarians, program supervisors, pharmacists and many others.

The Association is relatively young, having been established in 1992 as a grassroots organization to represent employees who, at that time, were excluded from collective bargaining. When bargaining rights were extended by the government to previously-excluded employees, AMAPCEO successfully signed up a sufficient number of members to achieve voluntary recognition by the government as an official bargaining agent in 1995. The membership has doubled in size since that time.

In 2007 and 2008, AMAPCEO was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine, the only labour organization to receive this honour. [cite web|url=http://www.eluta.ca/einfo?en=Association+of+Management,+Administrative+and+Professional+Crown+Employees+of+Ontario,+The+%2f+AMAPCEO&ri=4973d46c24e6d985844e6d86a929506d&rk=f60d0ebee87319abf5d534e01882e7c1|title=Reasons for Selection, 2007 Canada's Top 100 Employers]

External links

* [http://www.amapceo.on.ca AMAPCEO website ]