March 12, 2002 Round and round we go
| Management responds to the union
| Factor 75 Proposal - No, No Way, Never!
| P & P ‘Special Case’
| Wage Recovery
| Bargaining Team strike avoidance issues
March 11, 2002 Media blackout ordered | P&P Special Case presented | Essential Service arbitration awards
March 8, 2002 Still no talks with the employer | Corrections disputes only apply to us | Management Board misleads the media | P & P: Use of “government time” not encouraged | Crowd at Maplehurst rally exceeds food supply
March 6, 2002 98 per cent! - Resounding support for the Corrections Bargaining Team | No CWWs during a dispute | Radio ads started today
March 1, 2002 Take that! | Information kept strictly confidential
February 25, 2002 Reject this offer! | P&P “Special Case” ignored | Reports from your team | Time off for voting to be “reasonable” | Unclassifieds protected | Meet on “our turf”
February 21, 2002 Non-cooperation is the word | Corrections Team member barred from jail | Local Negotiations - NOT YET! | Tattoo, where are you? | Unclassified staff have choice of opting out
February 14, 2002 Arrogant and insulting: Contract offer “a joke” | Say “NO” to local negotiations - for now! | Who writes this stuff? | Thunder Bay refuses to provide training | Wrong number in strike manual | Bargaining hotlines available | See you at
the info meetings
February 7, 2002 Employer continues to ignore your bargaining team | Labour relations board hearing results | Don’t enter into local protocols! | Members make their mark | Info picket at Brookside a success | Run of bad luck in Region 6 | Benefit coverage
Q&As
January 31, 2002 Employer still refuses to talk | London rally a success | Solidarity at the “Don” | Tattoo you | Local 337 to hold info picket
January 24, 2002 OPSEU files unfair labour practice complaint | Team files for conciliation | Blackout in Region 7 | Hamilton rally a big success | Waste Watchers: It makes no “cents”
January 17, 2002 Corrections rallies attract media | Employer remains silent | Voice your concern! | OM16 grievance win rattles Ministry | Say no local protocols - for now | Be careful with e-mail
January 10, 2002 Team remains firm on position | It’s time to make a stand | Who says dinosaurs are extinct? | Burn barrels appear | Waste Watchers: Cost without reason | Spotlight on your team: Brian Gould, Staff Negotiator, Corrections
Bargaining Team
January 3, 2002 Employer refuses to recognize Corrections as autonomous | Waste Watchers: Where else can one create a job…from nothing? | Spotlight on your team: Mark Kotanen, Central Team Corrections Representative
December 27, 2001 Don’t enter into local protocols | Waste Watchers: Manager roulette | Send in those benefit claims
December 20, 2001 Demands are on the table | Actors come through again: Brown bags piling up | Waste Watchers: A waste of valuable resources | Solidarity continues in the regions | Spotlight on your team: Len Mason, Region 7
December 13, 2001 List of demands being finalized | Actors come through with info | Waste Watchers: Who’s got the cups? / “Two” many deputies | Spotlight on your team: Rick Dagenais, Region 6
December 6, 2001 Essential services agreement completed
| Local protocols must be consistent | Actors, it’s time to help your team! | Autonomous Corrections - it’s not going away | Management directs staff to remove armbands | P & P decree | Spotlight on your team: Dave Graves, Region 5
November 29, 2001 “Precariously” close to an ES agreement | Members mobilize in Region 6 | Corrections across Canada | Spotlight on your team: Larry Cripps, Region 3
November 22, 2001 Don’t despair, Flaherty’s cupboards not bare | Waste Watchers: Bambi, where are you? | Reminder | Acting managers should step down |
Spotlight on your team Jack Hopkins, Region 1
November 15, 2001 Ministry alleges unlawful strike | Waste Watchers: The “Rolls Royce” of ashtrays | Corrections across Canada | Spotlight on your team: Barry Scanlon, Region 2
November 8, 2001 Essential service bargaining continues | Waste Watchers: Millbrook officers sent to Ottawa for training that can be done in their own backyard | Corrections across
Canada | Spotlight on your team: Jim Bothwell, Region 4 | Praise for Local 517
November 1, 2001 Security is the top priority, says Harris | Waste Watchers “Order a full uniform to get a pair of gloves”, youth centre workers told
| Update those lists! | Quote of the week
October 29, 2001 “Black Tuesday” campaign picks up steam
October 25, 2001
Arbitrator rules on P&P essential services | Board gives full support to bargaining | Correct View a hit at Queen’s Park |
Corrections team members
October 18, 2001 Essential services: we don’t like them either | Does the union agree with Essential Services? | How is an Essential Services Agreement arrived at?
October 11, 2001
Klein opens wallet for Alberta public service | Little progress this week | Two new features to watch for
October 4, 2001 And the winner is… | Progress being made | More surveys coming | Ending the dues confusion | E-mail back in service
September 27, 2001 Agreement reached on dispute resolution | Return those questionnaires | Meet your management team! | Suggestions pouring in | Rumours already spreading | Corrections team members
September 20, 2001 Team members will be calling | Take part in naming this update!| Corrections team members
