| OPSEU/SEFPO correctional workers are facing a mental health crisis. Since October 2021, at least nine of our correctional bargaining unit members have lost their lives to suicide.
These deaths are tragic – and can be prevented if our members have access to more robust mental health supports. But there has been a lack of urgent action by Premier Doug Ford and the Ministry of the Solicitor General to address this crisis.
So now we’re taking matters directly to Queen’s Park – and we need your help!
Solidarity request: Circulate and sign our petition this summer
Please circulate and sign our legislative petition to Queen’s Park demanding that the Ford government provide immediate access to mental health supports for correctional workers. Correctional Bargaining Unit members will present the petitions at Queen’s Park in October once the Legislature is back in session.
Queen’s Park requires original signatures on paper petitions – electronic copies are not accepted by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
All you need to do is get the signatures from your OPSEU/SEFPO colleagues (and anyone else, including family and friends), put them in the postage-paid return envelopes, and drop them in a mailbox by August 16th.
We’ll make sure all of your signed petitions are delivered to Queen’s Park this fall.
If you’d rather print the petition yourself, please make sure to print it on legal-sized paper (8.5″ x 14″) and send the originals back to us at the address printed on the petition.
Your solidarity really makes a difference.
At the OPSEU/SEFPO Convention in April 2024, more than 1,600 OPSEU/SEFPO members signed this petition in three days. Let’s see if we can get thousands more signatures this summer! |
