Monday, June 13, 2011

Shortchanging Staff

Private prisons are often pitched to small rural areas desperate for economic development and jobs as a great way to create both. Unfortunately though, when contracts don't come through as expected, those claims rarely materialize. Raymondville, Texas found this out the hard way.

MTC runs an ICE detention center in town, which recently had to lay off 120 employees because it could not secure the contracts it had intended on getting, meaning they would have less prisoners than anticipated. As a now former employee said, “That’s a lot of people... It’s a small town, that’s a heavy blow.”

But what's even worse is that MTC for years had not been paying these employees their required wages. They were being paid $8-9 an hour (basically minimum wage, to supervise criminals) for nearly 5 years, during which time they were supposed to have been paid at least $14.50 per hour. MTC has not paid these back wages and is delaying as long as possible in doing so, also refusing to pay other wages due and 401Ks.

4 comments:

  1. MTC IN WILLACY COUNTY HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT THEY CAN AND WILL GET AWAY FROM ANY PROBLEMS IN WILLACY ITS A SHAME THAT COMPANIES LIKE THIS ONE DO NOT PAY THEIR WORKERS A FAIR WAGES THAT ARE DUE TO THEM.

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  2. AGAIN THE SAME STORY SAGA FOR MTC IN RAYMONDVILLE TEXAS THEY ARE WITHOUT DOUBT A COMPANY THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT PROFIT NOT PEOPLE. THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT REACHED ABOUT BACK WAGES FOR WORKERS BUT AGAIN THE SMALL GUY/WOMAM GETS JACK BY BIG CORPORATIONS.

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