OAKVILLE – Striking workers at the Syl Apps Youth Centre in Oakville will be supported by members of the labour movement during a special early morning rally.
When: Tuesday, September 28, 8 am
Where: Syl Apps Youth Centre, 475 Iroquois Shore Rd., Oakville
The Syl Apps staff has been involved in a bitter five-month strike in which the government has continued to pay the private contractor their full contract fee despite scaling back the 80-bed facility to serve just 23 youth. The workers, represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, say the government is prolonging the strike by
bankrolling the private contractor through the dispute.
Syl Apps Youth Centre is a maximum-security facility in Oakville which houses psychiatrically disturbed youth and violent young offenders, including those who have committed murder, armed robbery and rape.
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For more information, please contact:
Barry Scanlon, OPSEU Corrections Division: (416) 788-9190
Bebe De Freitas, OPSEU Staff Representative: (905) 536-8774
Syl Apps Web Page
