A potential strike by corrections officers and staff throughout the Ontario Province has been averted. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union has announced that a tentative deal has been reached that will keep 6,000 jail guards and probation officers on the job. A formal announcement is scheduled for this morning. The strike deadline was set for midnight tonight.
Had the strike been initiated, other public service employees would have filled the prison jobs.
Union president Smokey Thomas questioned the safety of such a move.
