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| State workers bid for own jobs as prison health union battles private sector |
| By www.lansingstatejournal.com - Scott Davis |
| Published: 10/01/2012 |
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News Local News By the numbers 1,300 The number of health and mental health employees in the Michigan Department of Corrections that could lose their jobs under a new push to privatize those services. 10 percent The cost savings, compared to current state costs, that private companies must offer when bidding to perform prison services. 8 percent The percentage of the 1.6 million inmates nationwide who are in privately run federal and state prisons. Nearly 1,300 health and mental health jobs are on the line in Michigan’s prison system as state officials begin to review bids to privatize them. And for the first time, United Auto Workers Local 6000, which represents most of those employees, will be bidding for its own jobs, presenting a proposal to perform the work more cheaply than currently done. Those jobs include nurses, counselors, medical clerks and other health professionals. The push for privatization is part of an effort by the Republican-controlled Legislature to find new ways to save money. Advocates say the prison system is a logical focus because it is the state’s second-biggest expenditure and swallows up more than 20 percent — about $1.9 billion — of the state's $8.6 billion general fund budget. Read More. |
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