The strain on the correctional officers spills over to their families as the officers miss important family events, suffer health issues and face a lack of sleep. 1 staff can transfer out or take promotions and “we are not ever going to get ahead at this rate,” Azzez said.
“It is bad across the entire complex. We are not going to gain ground ever – they need to hire at a greater rate,” said Christopher Tyndall, union vice president for the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution union. “We have a new hire who applied in 2019 and just got hired a week and a half ago,” said Layth Azzez, union vice president for the U.S. “We don’t know what time we are going home or what our day is going to consist of,” Butkovich said, pointing out that officers are often asked to work a 16-hour-day. “We are working at least eight hours of forced overtime a week, we have a retention problem and those who are eligible to retire are gone as soon as they hit 25 years.".
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30 to bring attention to dangerous working conditions they face daily inside the four-prison complex which is 130 correctional officers short of a full staff.Īmerican Federation of Government Employees local union members were joined by union officials from state, national and AFL-CIO groups to speak out about short staffing issues said John Butkovich of Pueblo, acting president for the AFGE Local 1169 which represents about 450 workers at the complex.
FLORENCE - Federal prison workers calling themselves “the forgotten law enforcement” protested outside the Florence Correctional Complex Sept.
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