2nd strike at Qld prison

Date: 09 February 2004

Prisoners at Borallon Correctional Centre near Ipswich, Queensland, will be placed in lockdown mode for the second day in a row tomorrow morning as LHMU prison officers strike in support of increased wages and benefits.

" Our members met this morning and resolved to take a firm stance against their employers push to cut back on our sick leave," LHMU Queensland Private Prisons Co-Ordinator Ron Simon said.

" LHMU prison guards have resolved to have a series of rolling stoppages into next week after a second mass meeting tomorrow morning."

Almost 500 low and medium security inmates at the privatised prison will be locked down and managed under a skeleton staff structure at the prison run by the US-multinational private prison firm Management and Training Corporation (MTC).

" Union members are resolved to win a decent enterprise agreement - and are concerned that the company has not been prepared to make a deal after six months of talks," Ron Simon said.

" We expect the company to change its tack when we next meet on Wednesday or face further turmoil at the prison."

DETAILS OF STOP WORK MEETING AND PICKET

The picket will be set up from 8:45am. (Members will stop work at 8am and hear a report from union officials before proceeding to the picket.)

Dates: Tuesday February 10th 2004.

The LHMU proudly represents around 130,000 hard working women and men throughout Australia

For further information contact:

Ron Simon on 0419 744 878 or 3016 2602

For further information

Contact:	Andrew Casey
Union:	Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union
Phone:	8204 7206
Fax:	92821 4480
Email:	andrewc@lhmu.org.au
WWW:	http://www.lhmu.org.au/

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