It is day four on the picket line for correctional workers at the Lethbridge Correctional Centre and they are standing strong.
Around the city support is growing, but their officers demands remain the same.
They want workplace safety for the new Edmonton remand centre (NERC) and across the province.
“We’re still out here standing strong for NERC,” says Chapter chair and correctional worker, Amanda Mcmurran, “we believe that these concerns are very valid and all we are asking is to have safe work environments in our centres”
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The nurses in the Correctional Centre joined the wildcat strikers Monday.
They say if the guards aren’t safe, neither are they.
There were also concerns that the courthouse officers, social workers and city clerk’s would also be walking off the job here, as other cities have seen, but no one could confirm this.
At the Lethbridge Correctional Centre it is business as usual with the R-C-M-P have stepping in to run operations.
“We provided pretty well all the services that would have normally been provided,” says Joe McGeough RCMP operations officer, “of course there would have been some adjustments but from all feedback I’m getting there were prisoner visitations and all the other services”.
This is the fifth jail strike McGeough has seen in his career and says it is their duty to assist.
“We are an emergency service and we respond when necessary and I am very proud of the members who have done so”.
So it might be that the RCMP officers will be handling things inside the Lethbridge Correctional Centre as the picket line outside stands strong.
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