Despite a change in Chief Minister and inflation going through the roof, the NT Government refuses to offer workers a fair wage increase, forcing Alice correctional officers to take strike action on Saturday.<\/p>\n
This strike follows Darwin Officers walking off on Monday.<\/p>\n
United Workers Union NT Secretary Erina Early said corrections officers \u00a0like many other public sector workers have had enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe levels of overcrowding and short-staffing are at a crisis point, and it\u2019s a disaster waiting to happen\u201d Ms Early said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCorrectional officers have a dangerous job even under ideal circumstances but at the moment the extra pressures are forcing skilled and dedicated workers to leave the industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe four year wage freeze has to go. It is completely unreasonable to expect the workers who have showed up and continue to show up to accept a pay cut for the work they do.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not going away and workers at corrections across the Territory are determined to win a fair deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n Event details<\/strong><\/p>\n What:<\/strong> Correctional Officers work stoppage<\/p>\n When<\/strong>: Saturday 23 July 2022 at 8:45am<\/p>\n Where:<\/strong> Alice Springs \u2013 Larapinta Drive (Screws Club)<\/p>\n Who:<\/strong> Erina Early and Correctional Officer Delegates<\/p>\n Comment contact: <\/strong>Erina Early – 0400 030 834<\/p>\n Media contact<\/strong>: 1300 898 633, media@unitedworkers.org.au<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite a change in Chief Minister and inflation going through the roof, the NT Government refuses to offer workers a fair wage increase, forcing Alice correctional officers to take strike action on Saturday.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65451,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41813\/revisions\/65451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}