The state has turned legal screws to attack corrections officers to burn inside New York prisons and workers' pickets as tensions are kept down.
State troopers began serving union members on illegal strikes over the weekend after refusing to comply with last week's court orders and refusing to instruct them to return to work.
“We're not working for the threat. We're looking for help,” Rebecca, wife of the Albany Regional Corrections Officer, said she was the wife of the state Senate Republican wife at a press conference in Capitol on Monday. I did.
Rebecca refused to share her last name due to fear of retaliation by the state Department of Corrections.
Monday marks the eighth day of Pickett, with public sector unions banning strikes in violation of New York's Taylor law.
The Amendment Division continued negotiations with a coalition of mediators and corrections officers appointed by the state on Monday.
A spokesperson said consultations will remain “continuous.”
However, the corrections department is also threatening to cancel executive health insurance and dock payments on strike.
Meanwhile, thousands of national security guards are deployed in prisons. Sources suggest that the situation is exacerbating internally with prisoners in understaffed facilities, with the situation being limited to cells.
That's what the inmates were He's dead at his cell over the weekend at Auburn Correctional Facility in Cayuga County, one of the prisons affected by the strike. Authorities have not yet announced the cause of death.
State police have released photos of the bus used by the torched corrections department last week. Another doodled the message, “Can you hear us now?”
It is unclear whether a deal brokered between the Corrections Officers Union and the administration of Gov. Kathy Hochul will end the strike.
The Amendment Officer Union claims it will not tolerate strikes.
Brigett, another wife of a corrections officer who joined Senate Republican on Monday, had not been in touch with his membership.
“Officers have lost faith in our union in conducting these negotiations. …To be honest, the union has not shown that we have a back,” he offered her last name. Brigett said that he didn't.
However, Republicans from both houses of the state legislature continued to show Pickett's support at Monday's joint press conference, but were not intending to provide advice.
When officers ask if they think they should continue their attacks in the face of legal action, Congress leaders also include Berkeley (R-Oswego) or Senate minority leader Rob Oat (R-Niagara). I didn't measure it.
“I don't have great advice for them. They have to make their own personal decisions about it,” Berkeley said.
“It's easy to say, 'You stay there, you fight it,' but it's not my health insurance, not my child, nor my family either. And what I want, the commitment we have to make is to fight for them so they can become stronger,” Ortt added.
