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By Stew Kernan

Corrections workers could be in a strike or lockout position early in the New Year if there is no deal with the government.

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union represents the 55-hundred employees, including around 200 in Greater Sudbury, who rejected a 3-year tentative offer reached late last month.

At a rally in front of Sudbury M-P-P’s Glenn Thibeault’s off this morning, President of O-P–SE-U Local 617 Nathan Aubin told supporters the government just isn’t taking this dispute seriously.

He calls it a crisis in corrections.

The workers are employed in provincial jails, correctional facilities, youth centers along with probation and parole officers.

Aubin says they could be in a strike or lockout position as early as January 9th.