Corrections Officers walk off the job in Alberta

Started by Barrister, April 27, 2013, 02:22:40 PM

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Barrister

April 27, 2013, 02:22:40 PM
Citing safety concerns they've all walked off.  It all started at the brand-new Edmonton Remand Centre.

Well this is going to make work on Monday fairly interesting...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2013/04/27/alberta-remand-centre-job-action.html
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MadImmortalMan

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April 27, 2013, 03:28:14 PM
So the safety concerns are focused on the layout plan I guess. They don't like being with the prisoners with no barriers between them.
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Barrister

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April 27, 2013, 05:05:25 PM
Not sure - they're saying there is more to it than that.

The Labour Board has ordered them back to work. COs deciding whether to comply.
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Admiral Yi

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April 27, 2013, 05:39:24 PM
What happens at the prison when the guards walk off?

Ed Anger

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April 27, 2013, 05:40:34 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 27, 2013, 05:39:24 PM
What happens at the prison when the guards walk off?

Wesley Snipes gets away.

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The Brain

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April 27, 2013, 06:06:46 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 27, 2013, 05:39:24 PM
What happens at the prison when the guards walk off?

Prisoners starve in their cells.
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Barrister

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April 27, 2013, 06:34:45 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 27, 2013, 05:39:24 PM
What happens at the prison when the guards walk off?

Jails are being staffed by managers and by RCMP officers.  Inmates are in full lockdown - locked in their cells 23 1/2 hours per day.  Nurses refused to work, so prisoners only being given "life or death" medicine.

Sounds like the COs are refusing to comply with the order.
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Admiral Yi

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April 27, 2013, 06:40:03 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 27, 2013, 06:34:45 PM
Sounds like the COs are refusing to comply with the order.

Give them a PATCO going away party.

CountDeMoney

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April 27, 2013, 06:59:26 PM Last Edit: April 27, 2013, 07:01:36 PM by CountDeMoney
Quote from: Barrister on April 27, 2013, 02:22:40 PM
Well this is going to make work on Monday fairly interesting...

Why?  It's your job to tag them, not to bag them.*






*And drop resisting arrest and assault on officer charges, of course.

Razgovory

#9
April 27, 2013, 07:06:07 PM
Wait, isn't isn't your wife a guard or something?
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katmai

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April 27, 2013, 07:35:05 PM
She was back in the Great White North.
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April 27, 2013, 08:08:13 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 27, 2013, 06:06:46 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 27, 2013, 05:39:24 PM
What happens at the prison when the guards walk off?

Prisoners starve in their cells.

So there's no downside to this labor action?

Barrister

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April 28, 2013, 08:22:48 AM Last Edit: April 28, 2013, 08:24:40 AM by Barrister
Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 27, 2013, 06:59:26 PM
And drop resisting arrest and assault on officer charges, of course.

:rolleyes:

It as if you don't know me at all.
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OttoVonBismarck

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April 28, 2013, 10:30:56 AM
As a public servant completely not-unionized (I'm sort of represented by a lobbying group but not anything close to a union), I think the concept is horrific and should be abolished.

As FDR said:

QuoteThe process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.... [a] strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable.

CountDeMoney

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April 28, 2013, 12:05:59 PM
Quote from: OttoVonBismarck on April 28, 2013, 10:30:56 AM
As a public servant completely not-unionized (I'm sort of represented by a lobbying group but not anything close to a union), I think the concept is horrific and should be abolished.

Is that what you guys call the NICEC?
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