Alice Springs corrections officers’ plan to walk off the job next Friday over stalled pay negotiations with the government will force prisons into full lockdown, with the Corrections Department raising concerns about community safety.

The United Workers Union provided the NT Corrections Department notice of the work stoppage on Thursday that is slated to occur next Friday for 12 hours, in response to the Commissioner for Public Employment’s latest enterprise agreement offer of a three per cent pay rise, which has not been increased since negotiations began last August.

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