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By reading the following you have acknowledged this and have chosen to proceed of your own free will.| Subject: Executive Secretary | |
Author: Real Deal !! [Edit] |
Date Posted: 20:00:42 01/30/10 Sat If you fools vote Manny in as E.S. you are all idiots. He doesn't do anything for Unit 4 members at the TC unless it benefits him. The admin. at the TC changes policies/procedures daily and this dumb ass does nothing. What do you think he's going to do for all of Unit 4 ?? Don't let him buy your vote with a drop of hand sanitizer and a pen [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Let's support him! | |
Author: CO [Edit] |
Date Posted: 14:53:57 02/08/10 Mon Professional, Independent , Innovative... Please join State Representative Lew Evangelidis his family, sup porters and other special guests as he kicks off his campaign for Worcester County Sheriff Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Wachusett Country Club 187 Prospect Street, West Boyls ton, MA 01583 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. This is an “open donation” event. No donation is required, but they are always appreciated. Please make checks payable to: “Evangelidis Election Committee”. Please call (508) 829-1711 or email lew@lewforsher iff.com if you have any questions. Paid for by: The Evangelidis Election Committee, PO Box 186, MA 01520 [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| Subject: Lets get on a winning team this time! | |
Author: GOP X-CO [Edit] |
Date Posted: 11:07:20 01/28/10 Thu Please join Charlie Baker and Richard Tisei For their Campaign Kick-off This Sunday Jan 31st @ 10:30am. Worcester Hibernian Cultural Center 19 Temple St, Worcester MA [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: What is Donald doing running for MCOFU's EBoard. | |
Author: 3x11 [Edit] |
Date Posted: 10:15:30 01/18/10 Mon Just because the Union saved his ass many times over the years he thinks he can run it? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: IA system SUCKS | |
Author: OGCO [Edit] |
Date Posted: 10:40:35 12/09/09 Wed STOLEN: Workers' Comp Data Files Last Updated by Lauren on Apr 4, 2008 Missing Since: Feb. 2007. Last Seen: Mass. Dept. of Industrial Accidents building. A gov't contractor accessed personal files on workers' comp claimants to steal the identity of 3 individuals, opening cards in their names and charging thousands of dollars in jewelry and other purchases. If Found: Call the Dept. switchboard at 617-7 [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Watch out for their thugs. | |
Author: GOP CO 3D [Edit] |
Date Posted: 00:04:27 01/14/10 Thu The AG is no friend to COs, she and her AG office has turned her back on COs. We called for help and she never answers but she will run any CO up the flagpole at the drop of the hat. We are getting killed at work and she could care less! Wear your outside the joint CO garb but nothing issued by the DOC. Lets show Martha Caokley how we can help things go around that come around. Let's welcome Mr. Clinton at a huge rally this coming Friday, January 15th, 4:30 p.m. (get there early) at WPI, Alden Hall, Institute Road (off of Route 9), Worcester. Imagine . . . hundreds, maybe even a thousand Scott Brown supporters outside, chanting and cheering, yet polite and well behaved while the union thugs with the Coakley signs are there holding a sign at $50 a pop. Let's show them how grassroots campaigning really does work when there is passion and how ultimately, we can and will win this election for the people. To my friends that I am sending this to, please feel free to forward this email. Don't have a sign? So, make your own! To town committees and to you all - consider using the signs again this coming Tuesday to take your entheuism from Friday night to your own town common or polling place or a busy corner and show your support for Scott on election day! p.s. cut and paste this around, please. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: MCOFU election | |
Author: Steve M [Edit] |
Date Posted: 16:05:57 12/21/09 Mon I am pleased to announce that I'm a candidate for Executive Secretary/MCOFU. Please visit matty4mcofu.com for a little insight of my goals and visions. Stay safe up there guys and thanks for your support. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Need your $upport | |
Author: 3D [Edit] |
Date Posted: 21:51:58 01/11/10 Mon http://www.redinvadesblue.com [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Sleepy? A repost for you. | |
Author: Dubrule [Edit] |
Date Posted: 22:57:38 01/12/10 Tue Mandatory Overtime = Sleep Deprivation By Tracy E. Barnhart Published: 01/11/2010 Remember that one little question on your application process that stated, “Are you able to work mandatory overtime” and you marked yes because you were excited to get into the system and started on your chosen career? Looking back do you ever wish you would have marked NO? In no other profession is there such a high turnover rate requiring so much forced or mandatory overtime on its personnel. It was not uncommon for the entire third shift officers to be mandated to stay for the entire first shift 5 days a week making for an 80 hour work week. 40 plus hours of overtime a pay period was the normal not the unusual and after a while you began to hate telephone calls after 4:00 in the morning. I always wondered what the effects of the daily stress and forced overtime did to a body. From shift to shift the correctional officer is tasked with policing this violent institutional subculture. Being subjected to this violent subculture on a daily basis is a stressor in the career and life of a correctional officer. These stressors can cause the correctional officer to experience more health issues, have a shorter life span and on average die at an earlier age than the average worker. Stress is not only harmful to the stressed officer or correctional worker but is also difficult to the profession and to the lives of others working in the institution. Burned-out officers frequently loose interest in their jobs, become passive instead of active in carrying out post and institutional orders, and let things inmates do, go without consequence. Thus harmful incidents may occur that could have been avoided if handled properly from the beginning. Stress is not always a direct association of the inmate population. Other byproducts of the profession can cause stress and impair functioning of the correctional officer. Shift Lag is one of these byproducts. Shift Lag is when the stress and physiological fatigue of shift work causes one to become irritable, experience impaired performance, and a feeling of being hypnotic both on the job and in personal affairs In a study published recently in the British journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, researchers in Australia and New Zealand report that sleep deprivation can have some of the same hazardous effects as being drunk. Getting less than 6 hours a night can affect coordination, reaction time and judgment, posing “a very serious risk.” Drivers are especially vulnerable, the researchers warned. They found that people who drive after being awake for 17 to 19 hours performed worse than those with a blood alcohol level of .05 percent. That’s the legal limit for drunk driving in most western European countries, though most U.S. states set their blood alcohol limits at .1 percent and a few at .08 percent. For correctional, in particular, current research has indicated a relationship between extended shifts and generalized poor performance. Overtime often comes at the expense of sleep. A 1992 study, conducted by the American Journal of Public Health, found that nurses in Massachusetts who worked variable schedules (including mandated overtime shifts) were twice as likely to report an accident or error and two-and-one-half times as likely to notify supervisors of near-miss accidents. With regard to healthcare professionals, sleep deprivation has been implicated in deadly medication administration errors and decision-making processes during critical patient assessments. Studies have shown that night shift workers have the highest incidence of fatigue due to sleep deprivation. Many correctional professionals will attest that sleep deprivation from shift work may lead to occurrences that jeopardize not only themselves, but also other officers and inmates. Fatigue from long shifts can reduce attention to detail, affecting critical thinking and performance. Although sleep is not cumulative, sleep deprivation is. The more hours a person works, the longer it takes to complete a task. More mistakes are made, and alertness is markedly decreased. In addition to reduced efficiency, sleep deprivation slows down recovery processes and impairs host defenses, increasing susceptibility to infection. It influences the potential for developing other disorders as well. In particular, losing sleep heightens the risk for type II diabetes, moodiness, and obesity. All these ailments will in turn lead to more call offs and more need for mandatory overtime. Shift working correctional officers affected by sleep deprivation experience a greater incidence of diarrhea, constipation, ulcers, and heartburn. As if this were not enough, their risk of cardiovascular disease is increased by to 50 percent. Women shift workers are more vulnerable to reproductive problems, from disrupted menstruation and difficulty conceiving, to miscarriages and premature births. For example, 55% on midnights showed “elevated waist circumference,” more than double the percentage found in the other 2 shifts. Half had sub-desirable levels of “good” cholesterol, compared to 30% on days and 44% on afternoons, and 25% had high blood pressure, compared to 15% on days and 9% on afternoons. Getting six or fewer hours of sleep each night is just like being drunk. Consider that most the legal blood alcohol content is .08. When you’ve been up for 18 hours, studies show that you function as if your blood alcohol content were .07. After 24 hours without sleep, you’re at 0.1 the same as a drunk driver. Now picture yourself after a 16 hour mandated overtime from third shift to first. At that point, you’re fighting sleepiness, you’re more irritable, and you have increased risk of accidents both at work and while driving. That is when you see people drinking a lot of caffeinated beverages, popping out of their chairs at work more, using physical activity to keep themselves awake. So administrators you now have to calculate more than the financial cost of forced or mandatory overtime at your facilities. What would a legal suit bring against your agency for an auto accident following an officers 16 hour shift of mandatory overtime? What about the obvious policy violations overlooked by sleepy officers on the pod? Inmates love staff shortages because they then know that there will be a new officer working their unit, who does not necessarily care what happens as long as the shift goes off without a major incident. Staff shortages and mandatory overtime may be the number one complaint in corrections. It is like a revolving door happening, the more overtime within an agency the more call offs it creates, the more staff resignations and unplanned illnesses you have. Visit the Tracy Barnhart page http://www.corrections.com/tracy_barnhart/ [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| Subject: As I've said before | |
Author: Retiring Soon [Edit] |
Date Posted: 14:46:23 12/26/09 Sat What this Union truly needs is to rethink it's structure. First of all the Executive Board should be more of a steering commitee. We need to hire professional people to run the day to day and represent us on negotiations. 1) An Executive Director: Hired by the E-Board and pay is based on performance. 2) A Legislative Rep: Again hired by E-Board and pay is based on performance. ALot of Ex Senators out there who know the ins and outs and have the connections we need. 3) A Business Agent: Hired by E-Board and paid on performance. The members of the E-Board would only work 2 days a week in the union office the rest of the time they would be back in the institutions. Have all members in one day a week at union office to meet together and then one other day so that we have an Officer there at all times overseeing the process. This would allow us to put forth a professional appearance and the hired professionals would be able to speak more frankly about situations as they would not have to worry about petty retaliations by the DOC when their term was up, and the harder they worked for us the better their pay. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: conn | |
Author: attack [Edit] |
Date Posted: 12:23:22 01/02/10 Sat Conn. prison: Inmate slit guard's neck with blade Posted: Dec 23, 2009 12:05 PM EST Updated: Dec 28, 2009 3:26 AM EST By STEPHANIE REITZ Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - An inmate at the state's highest security prison slashed a guard's throat with a homemade blade during a routine security check, prompting a lockdown, authorities said Wednesday. State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said the officer was taking the prisoner out of his cell Tuesday for a routine security check at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers. The inmate punched the guard, slashed him with the weapon and continued fighting until other guards restrained him, Vance said. The guard received stitches and was released from the hospital Tuesday. Vance declined to identify the guard or inmate, one of approximately 415 prisoners at the maximum-security facility. State police are investigating the attack to decide whether to charge the inmate. The lockdown was expected to be lifted later Wednesday, meaning inmates would no longer be confined to their cells and visitations would resume. Northern is the state's highest security prison, housing 10 death row inmates as well as prisoners who officials say "have demonstrated a serious inability to adjust to confinement" and who threaten the safety of guards and other inmates. The warden's office at Northern referred calls Wednesday about the attack to the Department of Correction's public information office, wherea spokeswoman said further information was not being released. Larry Dorman, a spokesman for the AFSCME Council 4 union - which includes prison guards among the 17,000 state workers it represents - calls the slashing "the latest demonstration of how dangerous and volatile working conditions can be in the state's prisons." "Our members are very dedicated to the work they do, but this is emblematic of the risks they face to their lives, to the lives of the people inside the facility and the public at large," he said. The facility has been on lockdown several times over the past few months. In September, four inmates attacked three guards in separate incidents. A few weeks later, an inmate set his mattress on fire, forcing guards to temporarily relocate about 40 prisoners. Earlier this year, officials decided to remove 580 metal lockers from cells at the prison after two inmates made knives from locker parts and stabbed another prisoner. The lockers are being replaced with plastic containers. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Old training tapes found | |
Author: xco [Edit] |
Date Posted: 00:10:11 12/25/09 Fri http://www.heaven666.org/russian-prison-discipline-38082.php [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| Subject: A must read by all COs | |
Author: LMAO [Edit] |
Date Posted: 20:46:57 12/12/09 Sat http://www.mass.gov/Eoaf/docs/csc/decisions/discipline/perron_william_1112091.pdf [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: There are other call centers around the State too. | |
Author: GOP CO [Edit] |
Date Posted: 21:55:26 11/24/09 Tue Repost from me to you. Stay safe! Greetings All, As you may be aware the Scott Brown for US Senate campaign has opened an office in Worcester. We are located in the Osgood Bradley Bldg, 18 Grafton St, 8th Floor. We have set up 23 phones to conduct our get out the vote effort. I'm asking you for any assistance that you can provide. We are looking for volunteers to come down to the office and work the phones for us. If you have contacts that you feel will be of help to us please share them with me. If you can provide me with volunteers from past campaigns even better. For now the call center hours are 4-9pm weeknights, 9am-6pm Sat, and 12noon-6pm Sundays. We have a tremendous opportunity in our state to send a Republican to the Senate and to take away the 60 vote majority currently held by the Democrats. Please contact me with suggestions or offers of help. Thank you All, Bob Lashua Regional Coordinator, Central MA GOTV bob@brownforussenate.com 978.758.7500 [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: did big dummy, sleeping giant nagle win his job back yet | |
Author: andy [Edit] |
Date Posted: 00:44:28 12/08/09 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  Kenneway really has faith in the CO's...LOL | |
Author: Dirk Diggler [Edit] |
Date Posted: 09:29:48 11/21/09 Sat You know it's funny that when all of the assaults were taking place at CJ, where was Kenneway? He was coddling his Route 2 constituency because he doesn't get the CJ vote, but now that the bad boys have moved to where his voting base works, the sky is falling! It sounds like Steve Kenneway doesn't have too much faith in SBCC officers. Well I do have faith in SBCC officers, because there is no difference between the CO's that work at SBCC and the CO's that work at CJ. The SBCC officers will sharpen their response skills, tighten up their searches for home brew and weapons and get on top of things there. It's a well built facility with great staff. I've had the pleasure of working with them on the tactical team throughout the years. Steve Kenneway does not have faith in the abilities of the SBCC staff, but the rest of the department does! Stay strong and stay safe. You guys and gals will cover each others backs like we did at CJ for years. Don't worry Steve, your votes are safe, I just want to let you know that I can see through your rhetoric. Let the staff do their jobs and stop your embarassing quotes about the inmates running SBCC, because the staff are FULLY in charge! From the Herald: Steve Kenneway, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union, said the numbers are misleading. “The inmates are running the facility,” he said. “This administration will not admit that (double bunking) is a bad idea. They will not admit it’s a bad plan.” Kenneway said the union plans to take legal action next week to fight the double-bunking policy. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: WATCH GLENN BECK ON FOX @ 5:00 PM | |
Author: DO IT FOR YOUR FAMILY . [Edit] |
Date Posted: 11:41:29 11/18/09 Wed DONT LET THE POLITICIANS GET AWAY WITH IT ANYMORE.BOTH SIDES ARE AT FAULT AND NEED TO BE STOPPED.OUR DOLLAR IS GOING TO FAIL AND YOU MUST BE READY.PLEASE WATCH GLENN OR LISTEN TO HIM ON AM 580 FROM 9 TO 12 DAILY.I HOPE TO GOD HE IS WRONG ON ALL THAT HE SPEAKS ABOUT , BUT SO FAR HE IS ON THE MONEY. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: There are other call centers set up around the state too. | |
Author: GOP CO [Edit] |
Date Posted: 21:52:36 11/24/09 Tue Thank you for your time and effort. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| Subject: What happened to Chris Pouliot? He don't have 20yrs.in. | |
Author: Noticed he retired. [Edit] |
Date Posted: 22:57:24 09/15/09 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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