PRISON officers at Goulburn Jail will walk off the job today to rally against the NSW Government's push to privatise jails, warning that the Goulburn facility could now be on the hit list.
The NSW Public Service Association (PSA) said the walkout follows Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham's admissions this week that the sell-offs were an attempt to break the strength of their prison officers' union.
"Based on the other rallies we've had, there should be at least a hundred officers there, many who will have walked off the job at the prison," PSA communications officer Keiller MacDuff said.
PSA assistant general secretary Steve Turner said the Government has to come clean on its privatisation plans.
"(Monday) Commissioner Woodham revealed planning was at an advanced stage for a 500 bed privately funded and operated prison in the Grafton shire," Mr Turner said.
"First Cessnock and Parklea, now Grafton, tomorrow it could be Goulburn - where will it stop?"
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