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On Wednesday Oct 12th your webmaster along with Jim Fraser and Doug Taylor attended an information meeting sponsored by the COAO (Correctional Officers Association of Ontario). The meeting was geared for the staff of Burtch and the Brantford Jail and the three representatives presented their case in a professional and open manner.

The goal of the COAO is to decertify Opseu as our bargaining agent with the government and assume this responsibility ourselves.

For those of you who have not been around Ontario Corrections as long as 1979, you may not be aware that Corrections went out on strike over something referred to as Category 9. This was in regard correctional officers and support staff not being properly represented as they had been thrown into a category with other non-related groups of Opseu staff.
The strike was short-lived lasting only three days and the result was the formation of Category 9 - our own unique category!
With the change of government and what some have described as the failure of Opseu to properly represent corrections members, Category 9 was subsequently removed placing correctional officers and its support staff in the same category as office workers in downtown Toronto office buildings.

This has been a thorn in our side for some time now and the recent strike vote as well as other "happenings" during convention have hampered the will of corrections staff in that a greater number of office staff in Toronto has outnumbered the vote of corrections staff.

For some time now, there has been talk of decertifying Opseu and getting on with business without the constraints they have put on us in concert with the government of the day.

COAO just may be that vehicle.

This website, in fairness to the different positions of COAO and Autonomous Corrections, will continue to show both sides of the arguement and the link below will remain on our site.

The decision to support one or the other is yours and we suggest you do just that.

As of this date, Save our Jails is now supporting the COAO camp in what they have to offer. Jim, Doug and I have some literature we took from this meeting and we urge you to aquaint yourself with it.

Jim Doug POKO

COAO

Which do you trust ?

Autonomous Corrections:

One of our Corrections Staff has something for you to read and consider. The entire document is linked here for you.

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As you know, this website is dedicated to the preservation of our present Correctional System. We wish that the responsibility for those people incarcerated by our court system remain within the jurisdiction of our government, and indeed, within the Ministry of Corrections.

A little while ago, The Conservative Government under Mike Harris announced that our system would not be privatized as was previously planned.

We had hoped this was not done as a pre-election ploy

The provincial election was held June 3rd and it has been discovered that the Conservative Government under Mike Harris fully intends to privatize corrections. Yes, the previous announcement was a pre-election ploy to downplay corrections as an election issue and, in fact, to avoid a public service strike.

So much for HONESTY IN POLITICS

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