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The union representing Ontario’s correctional officers has posted online what it says is a Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services contingency plan that shows managers living at the jails could be paid more than twice their salary on overtime if there is a strike.
The document that an Ontario Public Service Employees Union member posted Thursday on Twitter is allegedly from the Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee.
It also indicates that managers from other Ontario ministries who will be assisting correctional managers during a strike will be expected to do tours and provide backup for the regular managers, but they won’t be allowed to use pepper spray, engage in the use of force, or “get confrontational.”
The outside managers will also be expected to run enclosed control room modules on some of the ranges once they are trained, according to the document.
Titled “Contingency Notes 4 Jan 2016”, the first page outlines what appears to be a daily plan leading up to the 12:01 a.m. Sunday strike deadline.
A second page obtained by the Citizen lists 15 questions about working conditions for managers if there is a strike. That page indicates it was sent from a ministry employee to Ted Sheil, who is a deputy superintendent in charge of operations at the Quinte Detention Centre. It was not clear how OPSEU obtained the directive.
The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services did not dispute the veracity of the document, instead saying in a statement that the ministry “has plans in place” and is “prepared for any eventuality” leading up to and following a possible labour disruption to make sure staff, prisoners and the public remain safe.
The leaked document suggests that managers will work the first 40 hours at their regular salary, then receive 2 1/2 times their hourly wage for every hour after that, although that had yet to be confirmed by the ministry.
The document includes details about the number of beds being moved into the Quinte Detention Centre for managers to use during the strike. It also indicated that the ministry was bringing in a private investigator and other security staff to provide security for the trailers that will house the beds. Security at the jail is to be doubled on Saturday, the day before the strike.
The document said staff were encouraged to get dropped off at work and that the ministry was investigating providing support for manager’s families with things such as snow removal, child care and animals. The memo also said laptops and other electronics would be allowed in the institutions. Normally electronics are restricted, according to OPSEU.
Denis Collin, president of OPSEU Local 411, which represents correctional officers at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, called the document a “window at what’s going on inside institutions.”
“This kind of shows that even though the government says it is trying to save money, it certainly isn’t with this part of their contingency plan,” said Collin.
Collin’s sentiments were echoed by the president of OPSEU, who accused the government of wasting millions of public dollars on strike preparation that it should be spending to ease the crisis in correctional services.
Trailer is being placed at the Innes Road jail Jan. 4, 2016 to house managers in the event of a strike.
“When it comes to getting ready for a strike in Corrections, money is no object for this government,” Warren (Smokey) Thomas said in a statement. “My members who work in the jails are seeing millions spent on housing, food, and big-screen TVs for the assorted managers and scabs who will try to run these institutions in the event of a work stoppage.
“All of that money would be better used to reduce overcrowding, reduce understaffing, and help the thousands of offenders who have serious mental health and addictions issues.”
The correctional officers have been without a contract since December 2014.
Last month they overwhelmingly rejected a proposed settlement that contained a modest 1.6 per cent lump sum payment and separate salary increase but would have froze wages for correctional officers who had not yet reached the top of the pay scale.
The contract also claimed provisions that would allow for the creation of a separate bargaining unit for correctional officers and binding arbitration, but correctional officers complained the language was too vague and they feared the provincial government would back out of the commitment.
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The document that an Ontario Public Service Employees Union member posted Thursday on Twitter is allegedly from the Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee.
It also indicates that managers from other Ontario ministries who will be assisting correctional managers during a strike will be expected to do tours and provide backup for the regular managers, but they won’t be allowed to use pepper spray, engage in the use of force, or “get confrontational.”
The outside managers will also be expected to run enclosed control room modules on some of the ranges once they are trained, according to the document.
Titled “Contingency Notes 4 Jan 2016”, the first page outlines what appears to be a daily plan leading up to the 12:01 a.m. Sunday strike deadline.
A second page obtained by the Citizen lists 15 questions about working conditions for managers if there is a strike. That page indicates it was sent from a ministry employee to Ted Sheil, who is a deputy superintendent in charge of operations at the Quinte Detention Centre. It was not clear how OPSEU obtained the directive.
The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services did not dispute the veracity of the document, instead saying in a statement that the ministry “has plans in place” and is “prepared for any eventuality” leading up to and following a possible labour disruption to make sure staff, prisoners and the public remain safe.
The leaked document suggests that managers will work the first 40 hours at their regular salary, then receive 2 1/2 times their hourly wage for every hour after that, although that had yet to be confirmed by the ministry.
The document includes details about the number of beds being moved into the Quinte Detention Centre for managers to use during the strike. It also indicated that the ministry was bringing in a private investigator and other security staff to provide security for the trailers that will house the beds. Security at the jail is to be doubled on Saturday, the day before the strike.
The document said staff were encouraged to get dropped off at work and that the ministry was investigating providing support for manager’s families with things such as snow removal, child care and animals. The memo also said laptops and other electronics would be allowed in the institutions. Normally electronics are restricted, according to OPSEU.
Denis Collin, president of OPSEU Local 411, which represents correctional officers at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, called the document a “window at what’s going on inside institutions.”
“This kind of shows that even though the government says it is trying to save money, it certainly isn’t with this part of their contingency plan,” said Collin.
Collin’s sentiments were echoed by the president of OPSEU, who accused the government of wasting millions of public dollars on strike preparation that it should be spending to ease the crisis in correctional services.
Trailer is being placed at the Innes Road jail Jan. 4, 2016 to house managers in the event of a strike.
“When it comes to getting ready for a strike in Corrections, money is no object for this government,” Warren (Smokey) Thomas said in a statement. “My members who work in the jails are seeing millions spent on housing, food, and big-screen TVs for the assorted managers and scabs who will try to run these institutions in the event of a work stoppage.
“All of that money would be better used to reduce overcrowding, reduce understaffing, and help the thousands of offenders who have serious mental health and addictions issues.”
The correctional officers have been without a contract since December 2014.
Last month they overwhelmingly rejected a proposed settlement that contained a modest 1.6 per cent lump sum payment and separate salary increase but would have froze wages for correctional officers who had not yet reached the top of the pay scale.
The contract also claimed provisions that would allow for the creation of a separate bargaining unit for correctional officers and binding arbitration, but correctional officers complained the language was too vague and they feared the provincial government would back out of the commitment.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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