Media Advisory: Tuesday, March 30, 2004

EDMONTON — Alberta Union of Provincial Employees President Dan MacLennan will be at the Alberta Legislature at 1 p.m. today for media interviews on the expected release of the MLA Review Committee on Corrections.

MacLennan will be accompanied by Mike Rennich, Chair of AUPE Local 003, which represents provincial Correctional Services workers throughout Alberta.

The MLA Review Committee was announced on May 23, 2002, to review matters including Corrections Services staff and funding resources, offender and staff security, offender rehabilitation, and work programs.

The three-member committee is chaired by Red Deer North MLA Mary-Anne Jablonski. The other committee members are Lac La Biche-St. Paul MLA Ray Danyluk and Edmonton-Castle Downs MLA Thomas Lukaszuk.

MacLennan heads the union that represents Alberta’s Correctional Officers and other Correctional workers.

In May 2002, when the review was announced, AUPE criticized the study as a waste of taxpayers’ money, and stated that staff had already brought forward health and safety and cost-saving items that the department should have responded to before proceeding with the review.

Union recommendations included such items as the long-sought workplace smoking ban.

For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-232-8392 (cellular phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943 (cellular phone)