Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario

Canadian trade union

AMAPCEO, formerly known as the Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario, is a Canadian trade union representing mid level public servants in Ontario. It was founded in 1992, recognized as a union by the provincial government in 1995, and negotiated its first collective agreement in 1996. as of 2022, AMAPCEO represents over 14,000 professional and supervisory public servants who either work directly for the Government of Ontario in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) or in seven bargaining units outside the OPS in the Broader Public Sector (BPS). It is the second largest public sector union in Ontario after the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which generally represents more blue collar workers.

Until February 1994, when the Crown Employees Collective Bargaining Act was amended, the mid level professionals in the Ontario public service now represented by AMAPCEO did not have collective bargaining rights and could not legally form a union. The larger Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) had lobbied the Ontario government for decades to extend collective bargaining to this group. In 1992, what would become AMAPCEO started as a grassroots organization representing the mid level professionals of the Ontario public service. In 1993, AMAPCEO negotiated a Social Contract sectoral framework agreement with the provincial government on behalf of 12,000 non unionized civil servants. OPSEU attempted to win certification as the bargaining agent for the majority of the approximately 7000 employees with newly granted collective bargaining rights. However, its insistence that existing OPSEU members would have seniority over all potential new members was unpopular. In March 2022, the AMAPCEO unsuccessfully lobbied the government of Premier Doug Ford so that vaccine passports, mandatory vaccination, and masking would remain in OPS workplaces when the government transitioned back to in person work during the COVID 19 pandemic in Canada.

Under a governance structure implemented on January 1, 2017, members are assigned to one of eleven geographic Districts based on where they work; there are eight Districts in the City of Toronto and three outside Toronto, proportionate to the distribution of AMAPCEO members across the province. Ten of the Districts are about the same size (roughly between 1,000 and 1,300 members), with the Northern District slightly smaller. The AMAPCEO Board of Directors consists of fifteen members: the four executive officers (President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer), who are elected by Delegates at the annual convention, and eleven Directors, each elected from and by the members in one of the 11 Districts. The Board Director in each District presides over a District Executive Committee, consisting of that District's Delegates, who are elected roughly on the basis of one Delegate for every 50 members. The annual convention consists of the fifteen members of the Board of Directors plus all Delegates just over 200 in total at the present time. (In addition to participating as members of their Districts, members in each of the six BPS bargaining units separately elect one dedicated Delegate from their unit, to ensure that all bargaining units are represented at the annual convention.) All Delegates and members of the AMAPCEO Board serve two year terms, staggered so that approximately one half of the Delegates, Directors and executive officers are elected annually. AMAPCEO employs 45+ full time professional staff who provide advice and services to members from an office in Toronto (located at 1 Dundas Street West at the corner of Dundas and Yonge Streets, a location close to where most members work and where most of the union's employer counterparts are based). All employees in the office, except for the senior management staff, are members of a bargaining unit represented by the national Canadian union, Unifor.