| Full name | Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992 |
| Members | 12,000 |
| Country | Canada |
| Key people | Gary Gannage, president (since 1995) |
| Office location | Toronto, Ontario |
| Website | www.amapceo.on.ca |
The Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO) is a trade union representing public sector employees in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
AMAPCEO represents 12,000 professional and supervisory public servants, most of whom work directly for the Government of Ontario. Of Canada’s ten provinces, Ontario is the most populous (at 12.8 million in 2007, constituting 39 per cent of the Canadian population) and the second largest in area (1.076 million km²).
Ontario's political system in based on the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy and the career public 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 in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) work in every government ministry and in a number of agencies, boards and commissions in over 130 cities and towns across Ontario and in ten cities outside Canada. AMAPCEO also represents five bargaining units outside the OPS in: the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth (OPACY), an independent office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario; Public Health Ontario (PHO, formerly known as the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion), an independent provincial Crown agency; Waypoint Mental Health Centre (formerly the Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre), which was the final psychiatric hospital divested from provincial government operation; the Ontario Racing Commission, an independent Crown agency that regulates the horse racing industry in the province; and Health Quality Ontario (HQO, formerly known as the Ontario Health Quality Council), an independent provincial Crown agency. Seventy 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, veterinarians, racing judges, program supervisors, child and youth advocates, clinical co-ordinators, psychiatric patient advocates, media relations and communications officers, epidemiologists and many others.
As a trade union, 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. In 1993, AMAPCEO negotiated a Social Contract sectoral framework agreement on behalf of 12,000 excluded civil servants. When bargaining rights were extended by the government to some previously-excluded employees, AMAPCEO successfully signed up a sufficient number of members (subsequently confirmed by the Ontario Labour Relations Board) to achieve voluntary recognition by the government as an official bargaining agent in 1995. The AMAPCEO membership has almost tripled in size since that time. AMAPCEO will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2012.
AMAPCEO employs 30 full-time staff who service members from an office in Toronto. In November 2011, AMAPCEO was selected as a 2012 Top Employer in the Greater Toronto Area, the sixth straight year of winning this honour.