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Prison Workers' Union Surveying Members Online
By statesmanjournal.com
Published: 11/15/2010

Last month the union that represents most corrections personnel in Oregon's prison system started an online survey of its members.

The poll asked a simple question: Where, from your perspective as an employee, can the Oregon Department of Corrections best save money and head off future layoffs?

The survey generated more than 235 cost-saving ideas, said Tim Woolery, a labor organizer for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 75.

The union presented DOC officials with those ideas at a pair of meetings, one in Madras on Oct. 28 and another just last week at Coffee Creek Correctional Institution.

The ideas generally fell within a few broad themes, Woolery said. The cost-cutting themes that floated to the top of the list include:

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