NSW: Prison officers stop work to protest privatisation plan

AAP General News (Australia)
02-04-2009
NSW: Prison officers stop work to protest privatisation plan

SYDNEY, Feb 4 AAP - More than 100 prison officers have walked off the job at Sydney's
Long Bay Jail calling for an end to plans to privatise NSW prisons.

At a rally in Sydney's east, NSW Public Service Association assistant secretary Steve
Turner said the state government was planning to sell off Parklea and Cessnock prisons,
but privatisation would not stop there.

"This is about attacking you, about attacking your wages, about attacking your conditions,
and most of all attacking your jobs," Mr Turner said.

"The people who will …