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| Staff gird for strike |
| By The Canadian Press |
| Published: 01/12/2009 |
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ONTARIO, CANADA - Ontario's correctional officers are bracing for a potential strike, and if it ends up being anything like the 51-day labour dispute of 2002, life inside the province's jails could become exceedingly ugly in a few weeks. The workers provide an essential service and can't walk off the job entirely, but the last time the Ontario Public Service Employees Union went on strike, staffing levels in the corrections system were minimal and chaos was common. The union claimed that managers who stepped in as replacements weren't up to the task and blamed them for an inmate's death, rioting and escapes. The union also said desperate managers mollified inmates with pizza, pornography and cigarettes in exchange for good behaviour. The government countered that some workers were withholding food for as long as 19 hours at a time and refused to provide insulin and other medication to inmates. Government officials also said officers antagonized inmates, threatened managers and did everything they could to make their jobs even harder, including honking horns to disrupt their sleep and tying up phone lines with prank calls. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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