Who We Are

The Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO) is a bargaining agent representing 12,000 professional and supervisory public servants, most of whom work in the Ontario Public Service (OPS), i.e., directly for the Government of Ontario, in every ministry and in a number of agencies, boards and commissions; in over 130 communities across the province and in ten cities outside Canada.

We also represent employees who work outside the Ontario Public Service in:

• the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, an independent office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.  
• the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health (formerly Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre),
• Public Health Ontario (formerly the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion), an independent crown agency.  
• the Ontario Racing Commission, an independent crown agency.
• Health Quality Ontario (formerly the Ontario Health Quality Council), an independent crown agency.

Our members include: senior policy advisors and policy analysts, financial analysts, education officers, program supervisors, auditors, scientists, public health laboratory co-ordinators, mediators, arbitrators, veterinarians, pharmacists, racing judges and stewards, psychiatric patient advocates, chaplains, clinical co-ordinators, media relations and communications officers, children and youth advocates, administrative co-ordinators, information technology managers and specialists, inspectors and investigators, labour market specialists, senior economic officers, economists, transportation enforcement supervisors, intergovernmental affairs specialists, epidemiologists and many others.

The Association was established in 1992 as a grassroots organization to represent a group of OPS employees who, at that time, were excluded from collective bargaining. In 1993, AMAPCEO negotiated a Social Contract sectoral framework agreement with the provincial government on behalf of 12,000 excluded employees. When amendments to the Crown Employees Collective Bargaining Act were adopted extending collective bargaining rights to previously excluded employees, the Association signed up a sufficient number of members to achieve voluntary recognition as a bargaining agent in 1995.  An interim agreement was negotiated in 1996 and a first full Collective Agreement was ratified in 1998.  

AMAPCEO has grown to be the second-largest bargaining agent in the Ontario Public Service (more than doubling its original membership at certification) and, with the restoration of successor rights to the OPS in 2006, now represents a total of six bargaining units - four consisting of employees whose work was divested from the OPS under successor rights and one (consisting of employees at the Ontario Racing Commission) that was independently organized.

AMAPCEO is a member-driven, non-partisan, unaffiliated bargaining agent. The Association's offices are located in Toronto, where a full-time staff of 35 provide service to members across the province, supplementing a network of over 150 trained Workplace Representatives who offer advice and assistance to colleagues at work sites.  Members are also represented by almost 200 health and safety representatives who sit on local workplace joint health and safety committees.  

We receive expert advice and assistance from our legal counsel, Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, one of the major labour law firms in Canada.

Under our Constitution, the affairs of the Association are managed by a nine-member Board of Directors, which is elected by the Annual Delegates' Conference (ADC), consisting of representatives elected on the basis of one Delegate for every fifty members.

The chief executive officer of the Association is the President, who is elected with three other officers (Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer) by the Delegates. The President and the Vice-President work full-time in the AMAPCEO office on leave from their positions in the bargaining unit.  AMAPCEO members participate in the governance of the organization through 23 ministry and regional Chapters.  Each Chapter elects an Executive Committee.  The Chair of each Chapter and all members of the Board sit on the Provincial Council, which meets six times a year between meetings of the Delegates.