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Cook County Jail on lockdown after 18 percent of shift does not show up for work

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Jan 12, 2016.

  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member


    For New York in 2014, correction officers took an average of 14 sick days, plus they had an additional 9 days of deficit reduction leave to be used over nearly two years. Take that 14 sick days for the 240 work days, and it's 6 percent.

    http://www.doccs.ny.gov/Research/Reports/2015/SecurityStaffing_2014.pdf

    In Massachusetts, in 2004, the average number of sick days per CO was 17.35. The next year, it was 14.9.

    http://www.realcostofprisons.org/materials/haas_report_on_MA_DOC-2011.pdf (Page 6)

    So no, it's not just the union in Chicago. It's the job. As LTL said, good luck with finding COs when you cut their pay and benefits.
     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    You think these aren't high paying, low skill, union jobs in New York and Massachusetts?

    You just picked two states where public sector unions have as much power as anywhere.
     
  3. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Precisely.

    Here's another thing on West Virginia. At one prison, a CO can make it halfway up the seniority ladder in two years.

    49th-lowest salaries drive W.Va. prisons' turnover

    Why do you think West Virginia COs leave so quickly? Because not only is it a shitty job, but it's not worth getting yourself killed or having urine thrown on you over.
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Baron, why are you going back to your attempt to compare West Virginia, with it's low wages, to the situation in Chicago -- or New York or Massachusetts?

    Your own link said folks were leaving WV due to the low salary. Chicago doesn't pay a low salary.

    The issue is why correction officers have an absenteeism rate of some 6%. That's crazy. I've never worked with anyone who took 14 sick days a year.
     
  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Chicago doesn't have the turnover because of those salaries. Which are negotiated by a union. They stay on the job because of the salaries, but they take a large amount of days off. Give them West Virginia salaries, they won't be taking sick days. They'll be going to work elsewhere.
     
  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Prison guards love their mamas:

     
  7. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    It's Sunday. It's Mother's Day. Are they getting OT for the day? would think probably not. how many in the private sector are working for regular pay on Mother's Day.
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    LOL. We're defending this?
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    21% called out on the 3:00-11:00 shift.

    Make mom breakfast in bed, or take her to brunch and get to work.

     
  10. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    How many coffee machines did you fix today? On a Tuesday where 20% call out, something seems to be up. But on a Sunday and considering it's Mother's Day, I can see why a lot of people would call out.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    None, since no one called.

    But, there was no shortage of nurses at the hospital where I spent my day.

    There was no shortage of workers where we had lunch.
     
  12. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    If they did call, the rate is the same as Mon-Fri?
     
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