00:00For 24 hour work stoppage, everyone in a favour please raise your hands.
00:07Court is not in session. These Sheriff's officers are essential to keep the place of justice safe,
00:14but on Thursday they stopped work, forcing the closure of five major metropolitan courts.
00:20We're facing hazardous, dangerous situation. We're dealing with people who are in custody,
00:27so situations is very unpredicted and anything can happen anytime.
00:31In my time as a barrister and lawyer, it's never happened where the courts have completely shut down the way it has today.
00:38It's unprecedented. It's chaos.
00:40The Sheriffs join prison workers whose industrial action prompted a fourth day of lockdowns at seven prisons,
00:46demanding fairer pay for what they say is a dangerous job.
00:50Corrections worker Craig Bates says his colleague was assaulted so badly by a prisoner
00:55she had to get metal plates in her face.
00:58And for $58,000 a year? That's not okay.
01:02The Public Service Association is seeking a 20% pay rise over 18 months,
01:07claiming it'll bring salaries in line with inflation.
01:10The Premier says he wants to give workers a real wage increase, but says there are limits to what he can offer.
01:16We're not going to allow our budget position to become like some of our Eastern State counterparts
01:23that have got the budget in a far more precarious position.
01:26The opposition urging the government to seal a deal.
01:29We've got the criminal justice system basically grinding to a halt.
01:33That's not good for the workers. It's not good for the people of South Australia.
01:37After hours of negotiations between PSA members and the government,
01:42corrections in home detention offices and court sheriffs will return to work on Friday.
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