Letter to Joyce Savoline MPP Burlington

Good day to my brothers and sisters in corrections. Here is a sample of the letter I sent to the above-mentioned MPP who was quoted on CTV news. I also wrote a revised one for Dalton, as he doesn't seem to know facts either.

"Good day.
As a Correctional Officer, President of the largest OPSEU local in the corrections division and an employee member of the Provincial Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee, I wish to address your comments in the media.
First of all, I am appalled to have sick and injured workers slandered in the media during a bargaining period. Our jobs are not cushy, and, at the Milton area complex I work in, there are roughly 1400 inmates to contend with.
Our officers work twelve hour shifts and the days you quote are based on eight hour equivalency. You also quote that an officer made 140,000 dollars, but you fail to mention that the officer worked well over their scheduled shifts to keep this system running.
As far as working conditions go, many inmates enter with significant health and hygiene issues that front line staff come into direct contact with. Some of these inmates collect bodily waste as weapons and use it on our staff and put it on surfaces to contaminate our work areas.
When the unfortunate death of an inmate occurs on our shift there are no automatic days off to come to grips with the event.
After a fight for your very life the employer asks for reports and sends you right back to work, as if this is normal.
The stress of being under attack is a constant work environment, much like soldiers on the front line. We do this in a system that was revamped by the Tory regime in the 1990's as a cost saving measure.
Many of our staff who are injured, contract sickness or are victims of assault use sick time instead of WSIB due to ease and because of a lack of a post-traumatic stress plan.
Perhaps the employer side at the bargaining table, who received the Union's request to study this issue, would bargain in good faith instead of using you and the auditors to harass the vast majority of staff who don't use high amounts of sick days.
I would like to invite you to attend our facility during peak times to see what we deal with and smell the aroma of a cell of an inmate who urinates in Styrofoam cups to hurl at you.
Perhaps you would like to do this "cushy" job day after day instead of sitting in Queen's Park?

Respectfully
Emidio Casullo
Correctional Officer
Maplehurst Correctional Complex
Milton, Ontario"

I sent these today and urge you to start the calls to these politicians if you haven't already!

In solidarity, Emidio.