NO WAY!!!

JUST SAY NO!!! TO THIS OFFER

At the end of January you will be voting on the future four years.
The Corrections bargaining team recommends you vote no to the
initial and only offer from the employer at the corrections table.

Why, you may ask?

Please follow the list:
● This isn't negotiated, it is the employers' offer.
● Bailiffs, Rec. staff and Industrial Officers were left out, again.
● We don't get anything unless we agree to the sick time plan.
● If we fail to meet averages set by the employer we go to their plan.
● You start with a one time bank of 60 hours, not 60 hours per year.
● You accrue five hours a month if perfect attendance is reached.
● You can carry over 144 hours but you can't reach that in the first year.
● You can only cash out at 50% what is over 144 hours.
● Short-term disability then goes to a private carrier, on their timeliness.
● You submit information to a private, for-profit company. Will they pay?
● If the parties don't submit paperwork on time, do you get paid on time?
● If you don't have credits, you don't get paid!!
● If the carrier denies your claim you have to repay the employer.
● You may have to pay premiums to enjoy?? this benefit.

If you are unclassified, or enjoy the overtime opportunities, or like
the healthy environment you are already in what happens next?

Hours dwindle for schedules, OT dries up, and members who
should be home recuperating end up coming to work.
Staff who have the flu or a cold come to work and “presenteeism”
rates, staff sick at work, cause you to be sick and use credits.

And don't be impressed by the promise of 250 rollovers.
The MERC negotiated more than that in the last few years.
Why settle on such a small number like that?

VOTE NO!!! to receive better!!!

In solidarity, Emidio.

JUST SAY NO!

Good day, brothers and sisters.

The following link will give you the reason why this offer should be turned down...

http://www.opseu.org/ops/barg2008/tabletalk/table-talk-update-corrections-jan6-2009.htm

It only takes a few minutes to read, and it will be the most important choice you make, so be informed!

Don't be fooled by a plea to settle to avoid a strike.
We are not in a strike position and the teams are not negotiating to get a strike.

A "NO" VOTE MEANS WE WANT TO NEGOTIATE!!!

WE WANT OUR ISSUES RESOLVED TOO!!!

NO DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE GOING TO STRIKE!!!
NO MEANS WE ARE READY TO FIGHT!!!

Remember that all the things you think are good in this offer are paid for by selling out our part in the short term sickness plan that nurses, maintenance and office staff will still have.

In as blunt a manner as I can put it, the offer means take a long term hit for little gained!!!

Why?

• Casual hours will be reduced if staff don't use sick time they need,
• You will pay premiums for a benefit you won't want to use,
• You might not get paid if you do get sick, and,
• If the employer drags their heels in processing their part of a sick time claim you might not get paid for months.

As for the casual rollover language, why limit it to 250 when we can justify more than that. We've rolled over more than that in the last few years.

We need to fight for job security so that all of our officers are full time, just like the police.

I don't want a discount store version anymore!

When you vote...

JUST SAY NO!!!

In solidarity, Emidio.

NO, NO, NO!!!

Good day, brothers and sisters!

Seems like old times.
I am getting my strike clothes in the wash.
I have a number of new toys for the picket lines.
Do you?

Why, you may ask?

IT IS TIME TO VOTE NO!!!
THIS IS AN ASSAULT ON YOU AND YOUR CO-WORKERS!!!
IT IS NOT THE UNION'S FAULT IF SICK-TIME IS HIGH!!!
THIS IS BAD NOW AND FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR YOUNGEST MEMBERS!!!

If this isn't bad enough, managers at CECC appear to be doing blue flues to show the employer the problems in the business too.

Do you think they finally realize who's next??

Hope the message is getting through!!!

We can't let the vulnerable be attacked!!!

Vote no for this first offer, as the team hasn't endorsed this as a bargained agreement!

For more information, please go to the OPSEU website for the latest and the offer that is posted.

In solidarity, Emidio.

Deadline day!

Season's greetings, brothers and sisters.

As of 1700 hrs today there is nothing new to report.

That is sad news for the holidays, and the four issues that are sticking points are as follows:

1. Surplus factor 80
2. Termination rights
3. Reasonable efforts to find you work
4. The employer mishandling SICK TIME!!

When we, the Union, offered to help the employer deal with officer stress at MERC and Provincial health and safety they shrugged us off and continued to mishandle the issue.

When we, the Union, explained to the auditors all the factors that we believe cause high sick time totals they dismissed us as abusers of a benefit instead of coming up with solutions.

When we, the Union, tried to be a trilateral resource to enact the duty to accommodate properly they stalled to avoid exposing their mishandling of return to work protocols and post traumatic stress issues that continue to cause high sick time levels.

This issue can't ever be dropped by us as a bargaining issue to stave off a strike or we will lose more than we ever hope to gain.

I stress that you support the Union in defeating any offer that guts our ability to look after ourselves since the employer refuses to offer any assistance that is meaningful in our high stress environment.

In solidarity, Emidio.