NYC CORRECTION OFFICERS UNION SUES CITY OVER VACCINE MANDATE
The union representing the city’s correction officers sued City Hall on Wednesday in hopes of halting the “draconian vaccine mandate” that has exacerbated the agency’s staffing crisis. Hundreds of officers who refused to get the jab by last week’s deadline have been sent home — and the suit also seeks to undo the city’s order requiring […]
CORRECTION OFFICERS’ UNION SUES NYC OVER VACCINE MANDATE
NEW YORK (AP) — A coronavirus vaccine mandate for the city’s jail workers should be blocked, the union representing the workers said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that calls for a return to allowing regular virus testing and blasts the city-required 12-hour shifts that were implemented in anticipation of mandate-related staffing shortages. In the lawsuit, […]
COUNCIL RESOLUTION, STATE BILL PROPOSED TO UPGRADE CHARGES FOR GROPING AND HARASSING CORRECTION OFFICERS
Groping a city correction officer would add more time to a prisoner’s sentence under a bill to be proposed Thursday by a Queens city councilwoman Councilwoman Adrienne Adams, a Democrat, wants to raise the charge of forcible touching where a correction officer is the victim from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by more than […]