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A correctional officer at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre is challenging the ministry that oversees Ontario’s jails to donate to charity the furniture, food and other items it stockpiled in anticipation of a strike that never happened.
Lindsay Walsh organized a food drive across the province that encouraged ministry employees to donate non-perishable food items they may have stockpiled in advance of the strike that was averted earlier this month, and now hopes the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services will do the same.
“After our union had come to the agreement, we were all thinking about the money and things that were spent on the strike preparations,” said Walsh. “I would love to challenge them to give back the provisions that they have, their food provisions. There are tons of veterans and communities and homeless people that would love new furniture, love new big screen TVs, couches, everything that they had brought in for these managers temporarily.”
Correctional officers in Ottawa and elsewhere in Ontario had reported seeing deliveries of furniture along with palettes of food in the week before the strike deadline. The ministry had planned to have managers stay at the jail around the clock if a strike occurred. In Ottawa, that meant installing trailers and furnishing them for the managers to live in.
Inmates at the Ottawa jail have reported that they have been eating better since the strike was averted on Jan. 9 because they are being served the strike food.
The province has said it spent approximately $8.6 million on strike preparations, although the Ontario Public Service Employees Union believes the amount to be at least five times that.
Walsh’s food drive wrapped up Monday after two weeks.
Correctional officers in Ottawa donated about 50 items as well as a $500 cheque from their union local, according to Walsh. The union local in Kitchener collected more than 160 items, while other groups at other jails and probation and parole officers also took up collections, Walsh said.
The ministry did not immediately reply to questions about what it planned to do with all the items purchased for the strike.
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Lindsay Walsh organized a food drive across the province that encouraged ministry employees to donate non-perishable food items they may have stockpiled in advance of the strike that was averted earlier this month, and now hopes the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services will do the same.
“After our union had come to the agreement, we were all thinking about the money and things that were spent on the strike preparations,” said Walsh. “I would love to challenge them to give back the provisions that they have, their food provisions. There are tons of veterans and communities and homeless people that would love new furniture, love new big screen TVs, couches, everything that they had brought in for these managers temporarily.”
Correctional officers in Ottawa and elsewhere in Ontario had reported seeing deliveries of furniture along with palettes of food in the week before the strike deadline. The ministry had planned to have managers stay at the jail around the clock if a strike occurred. In Ottawa, that meant installing trailers and furnishing them for the managers to live in.
Inmates at the Ottawa jail have reported that they have been eating better since the strike was averted on Jan. 9 because they are being served the strike food.
The province has said it spent approximately $8.6 million on strike preparations, although the Ontario Public Service Employees Union believes the amount to be at least five times that.
Walsh’s food drive wrapped up Monday after two weeks.
Correctional officers in Ottawa donated about 50 items as well as a $500 cheque from their union local, according to Walsh. The union local in Kitchener collected more than 160 items, while other groups at other jails and probation and parole officers also took up collections, Walsh said.
The ministry did not immediately reply to questions about what it planned to do with all the items purchased for the strike.
aseymour@postmedia.ca
twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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