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Officer I: Bogna Betkowski

officer i: Phoenix Falling Public servants share stories of pay system pain Phoenix public service pay problems could last until October She said her work, which involves monitoring murderers, sex offenders and gang members at a medium security prison in Grande Cache, Alta., isn't worth the danger if she being underpaid, according to CBC. I could be killed ... I do not want to risk my life for the rate of pay that is reflected on my pay stub"- Bogna Betkowski, correctional officer "I could be taken hostage," said Betkowski, who has been a correctional officer for eight years. "I could be raped. Bogna Betkowski, 50, calls it a "slap in the face" to receive less than half of her usual pay over the past month because of the payroll mess affecting more than 80,000 federal public servants. I could be slashed. She cleaned hotels to make a living back then. "Going to work for $5 or $11 dollars an hour — that not right," said Betkowski. "That absolutely unacceptable. I could be killed...I do not want to risk my life for the rate of pay that is reflected on my pay stub." Due to an error on her paycheques, Betkowski said she brings home the same pay as when she arrived in Canada as a Polish immigrant in 1991. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.