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| Ontario's unionized corrections workers vote down latest offer from the province |
| By lfpress.com- Randy Richmond |
| Published: 12/11/2015 |
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Ontario’s corrections system stumbled deeper into crisis Thursday as 5,500 workers rejected a tentative contract and hundreds rallied at Queen’s Park as critics slammed government mishandling of the file. “A strike is very, very possible,” Ontario Public Services Employees Union (OPSEU) president Warren (Smokey) Thomas warned. “I can’t predict the future except to predict it is going to be bumpy.” The strike would be Ontario’s first in 14 years and would force managers — many of them bureaucrats from other provincial departments — to take care of thousands of inmates, many of them hardened criminals, gang members and people suffering from mental illness or struggling with addictions or both. A strike would turn the “crisis in corrections into chaos in corrections,” said Chatham-Kent-Essex MPP Rick Nicholls, the Progressive Conservative critic for Ontario’s jail system. Read More. |
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