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"Government has a responsibility to ensure the safety of staff and inmates, and we urge them to reconsider the decision to shelve the new remand centre,” said SGEU President Bob Bymoen.
Bureaucratic red tape can undermine the value of negotiating a collective agreement. MGEU/NUPGE will be working to rectify this problem.
Madeleine Meilleur apologizes for insulting comments, made while responding to questions regarding an incident at the Elgin Middleton Detention Centre, about correctional officers in the province.
Escalating culture of violence at Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre as jail reaches approximately 270 per cent capacity.
“Baillie is desperate to create some political wedge issue for himself, but privatization of alcohol sales should not be used as a political football, “says Joan Jessome, President of the Nova Scotia Government & General Employees Union (NSGEU/NUPGE).
Alex Himelfarb, a former Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada and a current board member of the Public Services Foundation of Canada, recently gave this excellent speech about why the public service in Canada is an institution that deserves celebrating.
