Compare and contrast the benefits and concerns regarding collective bargaining in corrections.
What will be an ideal response?
Correctional staff moved to unionize as a means of gaining power vis-à-vis administrators. By unionizing, correctional staff working at the state and local levels were able to gain some collective power to bargain with administrators to improve their own work conditions. States with unionized correctional staff pay those staff more and provide more benefits for them, which is likely to increase the ability of those states to attract and keep better and more professional-level workers. A number of concerns regarding unionization have been raised, however, and these include the belief that unionization restricts the ability of administrators to fire incompetent people, that union contracts are too restrictive regarding the work that people can do, and that in some cases unions have worked to increase incarceration in states as a means of increasing job opportunities.
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a. True b. False
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a. abolishing bargaining and increasing the number of trials. b. abolishing bargaining. c. increasing the number of trials. d. none of these answers is correct.