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Response to possible prison union: Pressure mounts to give federal prisoners a pay raise

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pressure mounts to give federal prisoners a pay raise Drive in B.C. to craft a collective agreement for imnates could spill over into national system By Rebecca Lindell, Postmedia News March 21, 2011 Vancouver Sun A movement is building -both inside and outside prison -to give Canada's federal inmates a raise, despite strong resistance from the federal government. Prisoners can be paid $5.25 to $6.90 a day if they follow their correctional plans. Each of Canada's approximately 13,000 federal inmates gets one of these road maps to rehabilitation, which can include work programs, training and conflict management sessions. And those wages could be subject to union negotiation if a group of inmates in a British Columbia prison is successful in organizing Canada's first prison union, ConFederation Prisoners' Labour Union, Local 001...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).