The union representing the nearly 120 correctional officers at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre says few inmates are showing symptoms of COVID-19 and the staff infection rate remains low. “When you look at it, we are approximately 94 per cent inmate infection rate,...
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The Ontario government has decided that a provincial jail in Milton, Ont. will not accept new inmates while it continues to fight a major COVID-19 outbreak. This decision comes after the union that represents correctional officers called for a halt to new admissions...
A COVID-19 outbreak at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton has resulted in at least 90 positive cases and the union that represents workers at the jail is now calling for a pause on the admission of new inmates. OPSEU/SEFPO Local 234 President Peter Figliola,...
Thunder Bay — Five correctional officers at the Thunder Bay District Jail have been diagnosed with COVID-19, while others wait for the results of their tests to come back from the lab. Bill Hayes, president of OPSEU/SEPFO Local 737, says the number of inmates who’ve...
On December 17, a Quebec-based union called la Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) announced it was shutting down its campaign to raid OPSEU/SEFPO’s 9,000 Correctional Bargaining Unit members. As your Ministry Employee Relations Committee (MERC), Provincial...
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