Fight for Brentwood Facility
By CHARLES R. BOOTH
Editor
A United Front of civic, church, lax
bor, commercial and_prison-family
organizations has been organized by
Council 82 to make Long Island Cor-
rectional Facility at Brentwood a pet-
manent installation,
The union has spearheaded the
dive with an all-media press confer:
ence and a mass demonstration at the
State Office Building in Hauppauge
which houses the offices of several leg
islators who want to shove the prison:
cts back into the already overcrowded
Upstate facilities,
Council 82 hosted a press conference
March 8 in St. Luke's Church,
wood. Newsday, the largest daily on
the Island and one of the largest in the
ry, and which has editorially en-
CF, carried a large story and
pictures the next day, WNBG-TV video
taped the conference and carried a wor
and-achalf-minute story that night,
WINS, the major news radio station in
the state, interviewed Executive Direc
tor John W, Burke who keynoted the
press conference, WLIM interviewed
himthe nextday. WBAB, Babylon radio,
covered the session live, WCTO had a
one-hour panel show hosted by Roger
Stearn in which two opponents of the
facility debated Barbara Allen, founder
of Prison Families Anonymous, and
me
Brent-
“Brentwood Gorrectional Facility is
1 in alleviating the severe over
crowding in the rest ofthe states pis
fons which are at U2 per cent capac
ity,” Burke told the press. “Had some
of the inmates from B Block in Ossin
ing been in the 400 beds available at
Brentwood, we probably would not
have had the recent riot and hostage
situation at Ossining.” He noted the
facility brought $12.7 million into the
local economy in just the last eight
4
jomas, president of L
The | J. Bischert,
chairman; John W. Burke, executive director; James Sipe, Council 82 president.
prisons, he said, take the heat off the
hottest spots, maximum-security
prisons.
Two weeks later he compared the
overcrowding of state prisons to jam
ming 14 eggs in a carton made for a
dozen, "Something is going to break
He asked the Governor to drop his
plans to close LIG
The
More Photos, Page 7
The loudest noise comes from the Dix
Hills vicinity northwest of Brentwood.
Itisanareaot high-income familieson
high-priced properties
The three most-cited charges by our
‘opponents are:
Tl
came the
the subsequent demonstration.
toe ot
Central Long Island is neither Mid-
dle America nora microcosm of Amer-
ica. It does not have the oppressive
poverty of Appalachia or Chicago. It
does have extreme wealth, but itis in
be squandered,
We cannot tolerate the losing of any
facility until thesystem ivat 80 percent
capacity. We strongly urge Governor
‘Cuomo to reconsider his position on
Brentwood.” (See the complete text of
Director Burke's statement on Page 2.)
The Council would, of course, op
pose closing Brentwood underany cir
cumstances. But when the Ossining
uprising proved overcrowding was
more than just a worrisome theory,
‘Council 82 fired the first salvo in what
hhas become a
est)
Shore, not within two blocks of a
ghetto as it is in many metropolitan
The area around Brentwood is largely
middle class, several shades of it, with
‘one-family homes, working classncigh-
borhoods, integrated school districtsand
churches, discount stores and fancy
shops, pleasant country lanes and in-
tersecting bursting expressways. Most
of the folks—white, black, Hispanic
and a (ew Orientals—are liberal and
nity.
2 The employees knew when they
came here it was just a temporary job.
3+ Thecloseness ofthe facility tores-
idences has created embarassing inci-
dents, The most circulated story is
that an inmate shouted obscenities to
agirl in her backyard swimming pool.
One word can answer all three:
Balderdash,
1- There has not been one incident
affecting the residential community
there was one instance of a miscount
(the felon never left the premises) in
which some local police officer pan-
icked and sent out word of a “mass
escape.” When this Hysterical Harry
three of 900 (not admitted).” A pris-
foner told me, "I was in a max joint
that wasn't as tough as this. There is
no freedom of movement because of
the high security.” Truth is, there has
constantly been a greater threat to the
community from the adjoining Pil-
grim State Hospital than from LICF.
2. The employees did not know em-
ployment was temporary. Gov. Hugh
L. Carey opened the facility. He knew
there needed to be a facility on Long
Istandand he knew it could be built for
one-tenth—~$10,000 per cell compared
to $90,000 to $110,000 per cell—the
cost of building a new facility. It was
Gov. Mario Guomo who promised he
would close the facility because of the
density of population.” Gov. Cuomo
‘owner in Dix Hills gave $1,000 to the
Cuomo campaign—and that’s like a
dollar to you or me—that'sa quarter of
a million dollars
3+ Residences are not particularly
close to LICE. It is about 500 yards
Frees’ office,
State Trooper official sitting and
calmly drinking coffee. They assured
him the problem was solved. “Natu-
all i
Burke sounded the call when he said,
“We'll beat the head of the line «in
the forefront of the fight against
* New medium-security
"tate
whether LICR isthere or not. Of the 10
per cent who do care, one homeowner
told me, the majority want LICF to
stay, "But the minority isa lot louder.”
and hardened criminals aren’t put in
this facility,” Frees told me. “If finda
guy with a bad disciplinary record, 1
whisk ‘em right out of here, I've had
Theared
between is wooded. I have stood at a
seventh floor cell window facing the
nearest houses and there is no way I
could shout to someone's swimming
pool.
‘The bottom line for the opponentsis
(Continued on Page 7)
COUNCIL 62 REVIEW
COUNCIL 62 REVIEW
Director's Corner
By John Burke
Executive Director
Life Without Parole? A Disaster
ig life imp L p
least with a 20-to-life sentence an inmate knows that there is a possib
to abide by the rules and regulations.
fan inmate was serving life without parole what incentive would there
be for him to abide by the rules and regulations or what deterent would there
be to keep him from assaulting or killing other inmates or officers? The
answer is NONE, There is deterent and itis called the death penalty. To
James Sipe John
Prosident Executive Director
Ronald Russel Joho Evans
Vice-President Robert Ontermelar Secretary
sJoveph Puma
Trustees
Tim Rounds Executive Board Rich Lesnlak
Denny Middaugh Ray Teltter
Retire
i Connngran |
vin a8
tear Mec
Haywars Boverly ESO 5 i
‘Charles Cambarer!
rank Abascia
Richard Bischert
P isexecuted,
1 in
been executed he would not be charged with allegedly killing Correction
Olficer Donna Payant.
Thave sent a very strong letter to Governor Cuomo objecting to his
vetoing the death penalty legislation,
We are thoroughly researching the possibility of getting the death pen-
alty on the ballot as an amendment to 0 nstitution, In order to do
this we must successfully complete the following: for the first passage, pro-
yea ofa term ofthe Legislature, For the second passage, sch amendments
ust first term
‘Council 62 Review March 1083
Charles R. Booth
Vo. 20,No.2
Editor and Public Relations Director
Charles R. Booth Is Appointed
PR Director, Editor of the Review
Charles R. Booth, whose byline C,
Robie Booth was often seen on the La)
daily newspapers in Albany, Tey and
Utica the past 30 years, has been ap- n
pointed public vlaion diet fr
Tative term so yeas). ‘The Legislature has the: ‘inven as to the manner
and time such amendments, which
have been passed by two consecutive
legislatures, are to be submitted to the voters. If approved by the voters, such
proposed amendments become part of the constitution on Jan. 1 of the
following year (in our case, January 1986).
198s, eit would beup fora
constitution on Jan. 1, 1986.
Happroved, p
Save Union Jobs by Booting Fat Cats
Tentative figures indicate 84 of our members are slated for layoff in the
state's budget crunch.
The most drastic cut would be in the Department of
Motor Vehicles where 14 out of 20 security officers would be layed off.
70 per cent of
grave threat to the safety and security of the state's taxpayers
‘What the Governor's Office of Employce Relations and the Division of
Budget should do is eliminate the
ical patronage jobs such as deputy
commissioners and assistant deputy commissioners. Does it work? Sure. The
Pi
positions. And the department is still in business, There is an abundance of
such positions in all agencies.
wear
taking this mater lightly. Most of our bargaining unit is critically under-
staffed. How
positions is beyond comprehension,
yw anyone can, in good conscience, recommend layoffs in these
Council 82 and editor of the Review.
Booth has been ars editor of the
Knickerbocker News and the Utica
Daily Press. He was a television
columnist for the Timey-Record in
Troy and hayan extensive background
n labor and business writing and
editing
‘As a union activist since age 19, he
was five times elected international
convention delegate by The Newspaper
Guild locals in Utica and Albany. He
was president of the Empire State Dis-
trict Council, representing. 16,000
Guildsmen, in 1964-65. He was c
negotiator for five contracts in Utica
and Albany, served once as president
of the Utice local and thrice as vice
president of the Albany local. He
edited union publications for both
locals.
From!980 through 1982 he operated
hisown publicrelations firm, C. Robie
‘
CHUCK BOOTH
New Publicity Director
Booth Ltd. Why did he leave it? “I
wanted to work for a saner boss than
myself," he told one of his new union
brothers. Besides, Ihave always wanted
toedita labor paper and yearned to get
back into the militancy business."
Chuck resides in Loudonville with
his wife Arlene, a PEF activist and
writer for the Department of Com
merce, and their two daughters and a
son.
Don’t Buy Campbells!
Campbells, Libby, V-8 Unfair to Labor
John Burke’s Complete Text to the Press-——
Brentwood Correctional Facility is
critical in alleviating the severe over~
crowding in the rest of the state's pris
cons which are at 112 per cent capacity
‘The McKay Commission strongly tec-
‘ommended that the prison system, es-
pecially the maximum security pris-
cons, not exceed 80 per cent capacity
Had some of the inmates from B Block
in Ossining been in the 400 beds avail-
able at Brentwood, we probably would
riot have had the recent riot and hos-
ing, Lamaski
Thecorrection officers transferred vo
Brentwood in good faith to be
their homes in the borough of Queens,
and Nassau and Suffolk counties eel-
ing that it was a permanent job as-
signment, Had they been advised that
it was to be a temporary assignment
they would not have bought homes in
those counties
For our people to have to relocate is
salaries, $2.5 million spent with local
$12.7 million directly to the commu-
nity and local economy, ‘The °83-81
budget is $13 million. It is estimated
that it will cost between $43 10 $8
million to relocate the Brentwood
facility.
i 10 place a great
and their
the length of time
ison
po:
sition on closing or phasing out
Brentwood Correctional Facility
Several major newspapers have rec-
‘ommended that Governor Cuomolleave
the facility open. They include The
‘New York Times, Newsday, The Daily
‘News and the Albany Times-Union.
they will be able to transfer to, etc
Ninety per cent of the civilian staff
‘were residents of Long Island and most.
‘had worked in mental hygiene.
Since July, 1982, the Brentwood fa-
cility had paid $5.2 million dollars in
isnohopeforany majorstate facilities
tobe opened in the New York City area
in the future. This area produces 66 pet
cent of the inmates in the system, The
inmates here are near theit families
and loved ones.
The correctional system of the State
of New Yorkison thebrink of disaster.
‘The closing of Brentwood endangers
the delicate balance which holds this
system together. The lives of our
members, the civilian staff and the
inmatesare too important to play poli-
tics with,
Brentwood isa very secure facility. It
would, indeed, be a tragedy to relocate
this facility and squander millions of
dollars when the state is facing a
billion deficit and the Governor is
talking about laying off 8,000 state
workers,
We cannot tolerate the closing of
any facility, until the system is at 80 per
cent capacity. We strongly urge Gov-
ernor Cuomo to reconsider his posi-
tion on Brentwood.
Letters to the Editor
Congratulations, Dave Smith
Congratulations to David Smith, president of Local 1790, Safety Officers,
Policy Committ hh d
promotion outside thesafty oli "i We regret our loss, but wish Dave
the best of luck in his new endeavors. Our loss is their gain.
Congratulations.
Marge Stroh
Secretary
Law Enforcement Policy Committee
Bo
Cuomo Unfair to Workers .
Well, here we go again, a new governor, a new budget and, as usual,
layots of sate employes, We state employes always et the boot whe
‘spayto
keep wh bug! down We have already given up 10 day’ pay beginning in
April of 1982, and the majority of state employees will not be finished with
this ay -back il April of 1988. This, we have ren tod is known aa “lag
payrol
Tosidimootnhey our governor and, Lmay dd, "our boss" wants‘
raise, which to us is qi Our bos
if
From the President
Wenow
fave notices have ben received by ovr 100 of our members Te Safety
hei
realso,
Tang oop in Eaton, GS, Parks and Recreation, Se cei System,
and the Division of Parole (three warrant and transfer officers in New York
Ra
power to make sure our members are represented,
Governor Cuomo is still holding fast in his campaign promises to close
Long Istand Correctional Facility, Wea
open, Ihave been to Long Island Correctional Facility thre times in he lst
month and a half, and { wasamaved atthe security in this new facility, This
New York State
New York. The
peop! he peop!
area, are determined to keep Long Island open. ‘The local union there has
ob in promoting the facility and I would like 10 com-
ut our
wants to “trlugh p
“vacations” without pay.
Iwonderif the Grumman Corp, would donateone F-14 outof every 10the
USS. government buys t help Keep the federal budget down; or ask its
ile
down. Is anybody rei willing to work for nothing to keep spending down?
Will the MTA or the Long Island Rail Road ask their employees to
donate some oftheir pay to keep fares down, or would “Charlie” ask his Long
Island Lighting Co. employees to go on a vacation without pay or to give a
day's pay to keep the price of the Shoreham nucleat plant down? Hell, not So
why ask us?
William Cook
Mastic
Protect NYS Contracts
I recently read where the Smith-Corona Typewriter Co. of Portland, N.Y.
will be laying off over $00 employees because of lack of business. Especially
‘when the New York City Board of Education gavea $1 million contract toa
company in West Germany
Tam very upset at this news, and the lack of this state Legislature in
allowing thistohappe. cpa inte das hardest
there should be: Dy the state.
vend it was $l difference per typewriter. Now how much more is it
going to cost us in the over $00 layoffs, just in the Portland area? Just how
‘much is it going to cost each family in mental anguish? What will it take to
‘wake up some of our legislators?
Frank H, Vasquee
President
Waterford Police Officers
lack
of it) by the overall membership. Come on people, don't sit around and wait
for someone else to do your work for you, give usa handt!!!"t
The northern regi
nd 25,
d the nitty-gritty
what he or she is really supposed to be doing.
Th
hand what y
This is your chance local leaders, Stand Up and Be
Heardi!t!
n 7 We
decided that since the problems of the two groups were not that similar, they
would be done separately.
As soon ais time permits, we also intend to conduct a one day taining.
seminar strictly for treasurers, It will be done in Albany and all locals will be
notified as soon as possible.
There seems still 10 be some confusion about the wir allowance. If
anyone came on the payroll after,Nov. 3, 1982, he or she was not entitled to
$250, Likewise, if someone went off the payroll before Nov. 4, 1982 he o she
again was not entitled to the $250
As of this publication of the Review our new health insurance benefits
sit have not been pase bythe Legian Tam very optimistic that by the
effort into maki eveything ea to Jan 1, 1988. have no doubt that
we will be successful doing so. ‘The membership should not be concerned
id that as soon as the new dental benefits have been approved, they will
process all back claims at the new level of benefits
Please Don’t Call Us “Guards”
eda persist
crime results in backlogs in the courts and overcrowding in the prisons.
th the
tion officers as "Guards." This practice both to the
‘were depicted in the Cagney-Raft gangster films, with the officers in the
prisons standing six feet tall, with silver hair, and thick Irish brogues
spewing out orders to defiant inmates, who were all white
y
world, The word “guards” implies that one is armed with some sort of
P y y weapon,
maximum security facilities, that today's officers have, is their expertise and
training, Local leaders should be emphatic in advising the media we wish to
Since the shame and horror of Attica, our prisons, and th
staff them, have changed considerably. Black and Hispanic officers now man
the prisons,
Legal decisions have liberalized visiting privileges and laid more and mote
expensive obligations on the law enforcement system while rampant street
Bob Slattery
executive board
Local 1418
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COUNCIL 82 REVIEW March
Straight Dope on Training Advisory Panel
By RICHARD J, BISCHERT
Correction Policy
Chairman
A major issue of several raved at the
Feb, 24 and 35 correction policy meet
ing in Albany was that of the raining
advisory committee. Thete spe
be a poor ot a complete misunder
standing of this agreement
he proper operation and intent is
to make
deputy superintendent of security and
training lieutenant from the manage
ment side and the local union presi
dent andoneother union offical from
labor's side, Local unions. should
Set
thone of th
ud ont ne paoblem a who
may sit on this committee
All employees who have made an
application for taining programy will
hhave their names ranked in
theit seniority and will be nominated
for training by their order of seniority
Phiscommiticeisa labor-management
committee; the majority of thiy com.
inittee must agtee as to who will go to
the waining, therelore its posible for
the advisory committee to select the
most senior applicant oF opt for some
does not have the right to selec
alter a deadlock
Trust mention one other problem
with taining. Council 82 hay not
agreed! with the yecent memo by the
director of training, Paul Hebert: we
do niot agtee on job qualification re
i In fact, that
past concept is what created the ads
sory committe
Another issue raised way the “new
Vier II discipline procedure. Several
Jabor-management meeting with the
Department of Conectional Services.
They requested new items tor the review
officer anda secretary tor this purpose
Commissioner Gard stated that lacili-
ties that were experiencing a problem
Monroe Sheriffs
Honor 2 Retirees
Two retirees were honored March 5
by the Monroe County Deputy Sheriffs
Gi at a banquet attended by
250 at D’Andrea's Banquet
House in Rochester
Steve Dikositski of Rochester way
cited for 21 yeary’ service inthe jail
bureau, Don Wall was noted for his 20
years in Crim
sion, Police Bur
Fort Myers, Fla, that he can still get
nesee beer in Font Myers so he was
staying in his new home
Local President Phil Knight said
judges, district attorney's staff
marshalls and other city and county
officials attended. The recipients got
gold engraved watches and certificates
of appreciation,
such items. Following this meetin
Sergeant Bill Poole informed the a
ministrationat Albion ofthis possibil-
ity; but later information was received
that Albion's request way denied
I find it very hard to understand
why the Department of Conectional
Services rejected a request for a review
officer (I) when Albion does not have
an adjustment committee Lieutenant
designated by their plot plan, teteates
am excessive workload om the present
watch commander, Albion appears to
have some other problems with the
Vier 11 discipline procedure; only two
officers andl supervisors have had any
training on this system,
Final note on the Tier I discipline
procedure: all misbehavior reports
should be made out int triplica
cach officer can retina personal copy.
Until such time ay this change ean be
made, 1 would advise all officers to
mn retain a copy of any written
reports
Uniforms, or the Lack Thereof
issue was raised by almost every local. Locals which h
mation on the uniform issue are Comstock, Woodbourne, Clinton and
Hills. [tis nice to have verbal information, but iho goa nen
a Uhank
3 theirfollow-up
+ et
The Council 82 Executive Board passed a motion to absorb the January
AESCME dues increase for our members. The board's action requites Gouncil
Two new Council 82 Executive Bosard members were elected by Garrec
tions Policy. Congratulations to Tim Rounds of Clinton and Dennis Mid-
nis to Joseph Puma of Coxsackie who was
LEGISLATION: Senate No. 5886—Assembly No. 1126, This bill would
close all package rooms thereby requiting inmates to purchase their items
tee meeting in Albany is Cindy. Trib secretary, Atle
Chairman Richard P. Bischert; urer Pete Van Scoy
trom Eastern Correctional Pat tiene
through the facility commissary. In order to justify and present sound reason
for the closing: coms eu
Comection Policy mecting to send in copies of commissary buy sheets and
cramps fo how conta has een set through the package rooms,
‘ the policy the package
roost, bt ty ane load espe: spevial thanks tothe ‘ion Toa and
Sharon Marshall for their response, Now is a good time for our membens to
Write to their local legislators requesting their support on this legislation.
1 of Long Iskand Correctional Facility
We all know Governor Mario Cuomo continues to state the facility will be
closed in 1984, Political campaign promises shoulel not be the cause for the
losingof ‘
empty beds in Long Island, the closing will not only mean the loss of jobs
(CSEA and PEF) and transfers back Upstate for correction officers, but will
also continue to overload the state system,
‘Make-shift bed space in a former recreation area (Coxsackie) and base-
ments (Woodbourne) only intensifies our problems. We all have individual
problems with overcrowding. Please note these problem in your letters to
area legislators, Supper Lam ead Connon Facility. Iitelosed, can we
may be next, As
new facilites are built, we mas insine the stability of presen facilities,
Council Declares May Tier Ill Month
It’s time to retire Tier III for good! The
council started the job of retiring Tier III
with the 25 year one-half pay bill in 1981.
Now’s the time to finish job. Set aside May
2 to do your bit for retiring Tier III. Look
for details in the April Issue of the Review.
COUNCIL 82 REVIEW
On the Local Front
Watertown Chartered, Elects Staff
Al Woodlard of Watertown was recently elected president of the new Local
1548at Watertown, Also elected were Frank Coleman, Watertown, vice presi
dent; Susan LaPier, Watertown, secretary: Sandy Allen, Malone, treastter;
Clint Loren, Chaumount, Steven Casion, Watertown, and Edward Lewis,
Watertown, all to executive board: Steven Carpenter, Sacketts Harbor, Ron
Pike, Watertown, and Bernard Sweeney, Adams, trustes,
Victory in Broome County
Council 82 won an import for military veterans
seen. The couty hal dni Tene enue to five wat eet
Kenneth Billo, Richard Browne, George Hunkovie, Richard Smith and
the Deputy Sheriffs’ Benevolent. Avociation of
ms’ Day. And though the local contract did not
designate Veteran Day as pid holy, the aint ald, Section 6
the Public Officers Law provided such leave for veterans and neither the
tunion nor the county could "bargai such rights. In another unusual
aspect, under the old contract, the losing party, in this case Broome County,
was liable for the full $1,087.42 cost of the anbitiation, Peter W. Henner,
general counsel, reptesented Council 82
Broome County on Vet
Long-term Officers Defended
Loretta Nicotera, a 19-year veteran,
ployee,a by the Council atte ated because
my, a [3-year em=
management said they didn’t pss their probationary period, Both had been
safety officers (Local 1790) rie Cemter, They were trans:
ferred to West Sene Vitliams bad b
at a recent meeting in Council headquarters, Albany. From lelt: Gordon
‘Schipper, SUNY/Oswego, vice president; Steve Beditz, OER; Jack Emmett,
‘SUNY/Oneon
resident; Susan McLaughlin, QWL,
Local 1792 Elects
University Police, Local 1792, elected officers and beard an explanation
of Quality of Work Life funding and procedures at a avorday mecting in
Council 82 headquarters in Albany
Gordon Schipper of SUNY / Oswego, former secretary, was elected to fil
thera ie pre’ poston, Jrk Ex, SUNY “Onn, oer
vice pre president ath of Bill Flanders
of Buffalo
Marvin Fischer, SUNY Farmingdale in Long Island, was elected seere-
tary, Kurt Herrmann, SUNY ‘University of Buffalo, was appointed Region 7
vice president, Edward Moore of SUNY Cortland remain treastter
Susan Melaughlin program associate for Quality of Work Life,
job 18 months and Nicotera almost a year. Council 82's position is that
Williams cava
was thus automatically given permanence; and that Nicotera, ay a transfer,
should have been given permanency or terminated at the endl of six: months,
R
Watertown Charter President Al Woodard {a ands atatt representative Nick
Pinto display the new charter received by Local
topresent te
Bitz representative ofthe Office of Employee Relations, and Mike Lewan
dowski, director of employee relations for OER, satin on the meeting,
Sparace Heads Local 2965
and supervisors at Centtal New York Pali Center, Marcy, recently
elected Vito J. Sparace of Rome as president, Also elected were Walter Ham:
mon, Rome, vice president; Baldo Cecielia, Whitesboro, secretary-treast
Mary Cochi, Holland Patent, recording secretary; Richard Zupkas, Whites-
boro, Howard Coleman, Rome, and Bernard Sto0ks, New York Mills, execu
i three-year trustees
nant Utica, ee steward
Local 2060 Wins Back Time
Chalk up two points for Council 82, Under terms and conditions of
employment, the Erie County Sheriff's Department had always allowed
sick time, In August, reports staff representative Bob Maloney, the manage:
ait so that any 15 minutes off the job would be deducted fro
c. the county
pay Fase a pay period. W
bei me the period. ‘The county was ordered 10 pa
costing the county $17,000 and gaining our members 13 days’ higher pay.
82 Wins Right to Arbitrate Age Discrimination
Supreme Couirt Justice William J
Ostrowski has ruled that Council 82
County deemed that their diserimina-
tion was justified by the age Limit (29)
‘vil Service
challenged by an arbitrator and that
McMahon's participation in a federal
asa an age
ination grievance filed by Erie Coun
Deputy Sheriff Mark McMahon
Deputy MeMahon works atthe Erie
County Holding Center, Before his
29th birthday, he passed a Civil Service
the current contract negotiated
by Council #2 contains strong age dis-
crimination protections, MeMahon
filed a grievance protesting his 1e-
arbitration. Council 82 argued that
Section 58 had already bee % declared
unconstitutional by the U $. District
Court for the Southern District and
could not be used to bar arbitra
sheriff-criminal, but he did not pass
the physical examination, However,
this provision. The matter was ad-
these through grievance procedure
Erie County refused
on the eligible list afer he sub
quently passed the physical exam be-
‘cause he turned 29 in the interim, Erie
ue cont moved to stay arbitration
in Supreme Court, arguing, that the
age limits in Section 58 could not be
of contractual age discriminatior
claimsisnot barred by the pendency in
federal court of similar claims,
Thecourt agreed with Council 820n,
both of these issues, It has ordered the
panties toarbitration, Executive Direc-
tor John Burke state:
“Council 82 will continue to sup»
port the merit system for Civil Service
appointmentsand we will not tolerate
discrimination on any basis. This case
is significant because it permits unions
toattack discrimination claims in the
most expeditious manner, through the
grievance procedure and arbitration
Council 82 was represented by Gene
eral Counsel Peter W. Henner and As-
sociate Counsel Christopher H.
Gardner.
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Legislative Report
Welcome Aboard, Kathy McCormack
COUNCIL 82 REVIEW
to welcome Kathy
Council 82 and ity Legislative Committee wa
McCormack to the Council in her capacity a
chairman, Ms. McCotmack worked with the AFSCME Inter
the 1982 Congressional and gubernatorial races. Previous to that, she was a
Iegislative assistant at the New York Educators Association. She has also
worked for the New York State Assembly
Lgisatureis asalwas, embroiled in de bate he budget Most
ofour walk have
negotiations. Kathy has been talawion the committee meetings and further-
ing our relationship with the new members of bath houses
Following is a list of bills we are handling this session, We will be
senting you bulletins on your bills with all pertinent information,
1. Binding arbitration deputy sheriff
2. 207(e) Gen
8, Capital Pol
1 Municipal Lav, State Conection Off
andl EnCon Police retirement transler.
4, Political activites, city, town and village police
5. Institutional Safety Officers centralization—line command.
6, SHTTA peace officers
7. Security officers (labor OGS workers compensation) peace officer
8. University public safety officer (peace officer and appearance
ticker)
9. Deputy sheriffs’ 20- and 25-year half pay:
10, State Patk Police—Division of Law Enforcement and 207(c)
GML.
M1. EnGon police—Division of Law Enforcement
12. Safety officers appearance tickets.
13, Erie County deputy bill (Allen).
14, Seaneh and rescte forest rangers
15, Creditable service for retirement (narcotics)
16, Package room bill corrections.
17, Comection retirement bill (improvements)
18, Long Island facility (keep open)
19. Heart bill correction,
20, CERT team correction
21, Erie County deputy sheriffs’ reopens 89(b) certified by County
82
By Ralph Kent nine Director
Kathy McCormack
‘New assistant to legislative chairman
inbereachedat
Counc 8) rm A124 between 9 and 5, Monday ren h Friday, to assist
you
1 want ta personally thank Too Tate and Frank Vasquer for their
cp permit
for nl ‘ier ad coveton afer tient
The Le
Dave Smith on his appointment to the Quality of Work Life Committe. We
‘would like to thank hinn for his tremendous contribution to the Legistative
Committee, Good luck in your futur
slative Comn nts to extendl best wishes and success t0
nideavors!
The committee welcomes Richard Lesniak, who will replace David, in
his capstity with the uniform safety officers
Council 82 Endorses Early Retirement Plan
By RALPH KENT
and KATHY McCORMACK
Due to the response of a great many of our members on the Governor's
carly retitement plan, we ate presenting pertinent sections of the bill.
We're in favor ofthis because it gives the years’ seri td those
Th “ dent
The purpose is to reduce state personnel costs by providing an incentive
toencour
3,400 employees will tetine under this bill, saving the
annually for five years
pployees to retire early. ‘The Division of Budget has estimated
$143 million
The bill would be effi immediately. It would provide tre yeas
ate
the stateana who area eas 38 yeas old, The employees must have been in
Teas alteady passed the Asse ly We wil adviue you ofits progress.
Counell 82 set up a dleply at Empire State Plaza recently on behalf of the Center for
paid sta Jan, 31, 1985, and must retire before May $1, 1983
might be extended)
Official Admits
Pay Rate Error
The Office of Employee Relations
has notified Executive Director Jack
y Services and Se-
curity Supervisors Unit agreement
The proper salary for the hiring
of Grade H, wrote assistant director
Thomas A. Gibbs, is $18,376. Appen
dix A erroneously lists the pay as
from the public were, ‘rm left: Ludwig Kleinschmidt, former Clinton correction officer
$18,736, If they're going to print
another wrong figure, how about one
Facllity; lene Conley, Hudson CF.
for our side?
COUNCIL 82 REVIEW
Fight for Brentwood Facility Intensifies
(Continued from Page 1)
property values. And the truth of the
matteris that they have increased since
the facility wasinstalled, Prices quoted
by one real estate dealer showed the
average house in Central Islip sold for
$83,826 in 1981; after the facility
opened it was $36,961. Brentwood, the
community closest to the facility in the
patchwork geography of Long Island,
iged $38,282 per howe in 1981;
4227 in ave I9K2. Another dele
told us his properties mal risen from
10 to $60,000 in that period and
that Brentwood and Smithtown values
had increased. A third said he wasn’t
even aware there were prisoners there”
until the imereased press coverage 1e-
cently, When I later told the first wo
real estate dealers T represented the
Council, they flapped, all but in uni-
son, “Oh yes, but if the prison weren't
hehe pies would have raised even
mo
So much for that
A lot of good horsesense comn
has been coming nm
ion circle. "I don’t know what makes
Long Islanders more important than
everyone else,” said Geri Harkit
iondale, who spends $50. week to visit
herson in an Upstate prison. "We have
to share the burden,” she said at the
press conference. “There should be a
facility on the Island where families
can visit their imprisoned members," a
ress told me
from outside the un
Marcella Amareno, head of the
newly formed Citizen Support Group,
said of the inmates: "They are from
ong Island, they commit crimes on
Long Island, they will be released on
Long tsland, so why shouldn't they be
erated on Long Island?" Marion
esident of the Beach Main
which supplies the prison, and a
Here
Curtis Abraham, a member of the executive board of Local 1853, chats with
educational services director Jar
housewife, said, “I live five miles from
the prison and I don’t fee threatened
Tve been inside prisons and seen the
overcrowding and I decided not to be
quiet about it... weneed this prison,
Long Istan
ducing criminals so 1 see no reas
they shouldn't take cate of th
said Deputy Fr
Anew organization joined the United
Front for the March 2 demonstration
for which the union
nd isn't exempt from pro:
own
ad police ce
id protection. [t was the Four
Counties Givie Association which
‘ludes community and business lead
cra in rested te om i
Nas ulfolk counties,
(The major oppovents to retaining
LIC are Four Towns Civie Associa
tion, heavy with wealthy: property
owners, and COPP, Committee Op:
posing Pilgrim Prison, heavy with real
estate dealers and some taxpayers.)
Local 1653
Speaking atthe press cont sree ‘on behalf of the Prison Ministry
Team Is Father James Kevin
is flanked by nder
Barbara Allen, lett, and Marcela Amato, President of the Civil
Support Group for LICF.
‘a member of PEF.
wood Facilit
‘a former president, and Barbara Allen,
Trudy K.,
founder of Prison Families Anonymous.
Religious leaders of the Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish faiths sup:
ported both the press conference and
the demonstration, So did many union
brothers and sisters from the Island
ancl New York Gity:commercial spokes-
men, at Teast two real estate dealers,
social workers, taxpayers and students
were on our informational picket Line
Some random observations on events
a Brentwonx
COPP Copped Out
COPP had
cohorts in Four Towns Civie Associa-
nounced through its
tion that it would picket our presscon-
‘unconditionally supported our efforts
at LICE. We ask your support of him
Among those opposing LICK are
Paul E, Harenberg, D:5th Assembly
District, Hauppauge; Robert C, Wertz,
Relth AD, Smithtown; James Lack, R
2nd Senatorial District, We likewise
strongly recommend you remember
Assemblyma
recently wrote his
constituents, “The news that Gover-
nor Cuomo plans to close this mon:
strosity is wonderful... We will have to
keep fighting to ensure that this eye-
builtin 1984 and hasn't moved
ference.
nota COPP showed up... Spe
nel Four Towns pro-
si
turdays. They park their Lincolnsa
road and cause
seat inconvenience to people visiting
inmates and 10 LICE employees on
their way to oF from legitimate busic
ness. Barbara Allen of PFA gor off a
good shot at the picketers in the
O broadcast. “Why don’t you
people at least picket in such a way
you're not tying up traffic and
sing and harassing people
‘who have enough problems (visiting
inmates) asit is?” ... Council 82 Presi-
dent James Sipe commented to Diree-
tor Burke that the press conference
pickets idn’t show. “That would have
Deen the irsttime in my life erosseda
picket line,” Burke replied.
Senator Andrew Jenkinsof Queens has
Cadillacs down th
ta it sang te never noted thi
Thereare alterna
slotting cape by
“It would be a home for geriat-
rie detelicts,” said a cortection of-
at be
* sneered a
Dick Bi-
schett, Conection Poliey chairman,
dn Elerece Thomas, president ofthe
Brentwood Local, joined President
Sipe and Ditector Burke at the head
table for the press conference, Thomas
comments were telecast on Channel 2,
nearby civilian worker.
Pages
COUNCIL 82 REVIEW
March
Among Our sel VES; A Roundup of Personal Notes
Chuck Pits of Elmira, Local 1040, Auica Correc-
tional Facility, knocked "em dead at Mancuso's
Bowling Lanes Feb, 22. The 28-year-old bowler put
together a glittering 79K series with consecutive
games of 255, 256 and 298, After missing two pins on
his last throw, headmitted to Jim Mann, local presi-
ne Council vee president, that he had “choked
aghter of GO,
huts accepted an
Brandy Hope Langston, «
| Judith 1. Langsto
nt to the United States Military Academy
at West Point, Her proud dd is:
William Cook, Mastic, an officer at Pil
Psychiatrie Cemter, had a letter published in News:
day, one of the nation's largest dailies. Bruno Mat
Jovi, Long Is nt for Local 1790,
asked we reprint it in our leters column, And 90 we
nd vice presid
did
Donald Huff, a deputy sheriff in Broome
Countyand past vice president and treasurer of Local
2, is running for Broome County Sheriff. One of
an is the “lov risk” county jail dormitory
which was the subject of an appeal from Loc
to the state, Richard C. Wallikas, president of 2012,
‘wrote that using the dormitory faviities for danger
Brandy Hope Langston
Sgt. Francis “Pat” Dolan, Albany Police De
partment narcotics and vicesquiad department head,
swapped shields in February. He has taken his re
tinement (24 years) and is now a security guard for
gara Mohawk's Glenmont power plant, He will
hye replaced by Detective Sgt. Thomas Fargione
Forest Ranger Richard K. Swanson, of Pough-
safety,
Donald Huff
r ‘ounty
Sheriff Raynor Weizenecker recently for tackling a
Kl fugitive armed with a deadly weapon,
“This certainly took some cour
which displays your ability
Weizenecker wrote. "It was later learned the suspect
Crook Had Helluva Nerve
is wanted in New York City for grand larceny not to
mention charges he faces here..."
toe 8
Sgt. Robert Loya and Deputy William Walsh
were injured subdluinga trespasser in the Town of New
Scotland. ‘The Albany County officers said second-
degree assault, resisting arrest and criminal trespass
charges were placed against the H-yeat-old Albany
man,
Emanuel Richards Jr, president of the Minority
Contections Olficers Association now assigned to the
Fulton Correctional Facility in the Bronx, was inter-
red in The New York Times Jan. 28. He said
prison officials are “too lackadaisical to enforce dis-
cipline (on) inmates.
Chuck Pitts
C.0. a Victim, Solves Own Theft Case
By CINDY M. TRIMBLE
Secretary, Local 1255
Te was 2:15 a.m. on a cold winter's night when the
home of one of Fishkill’s correction officers: was
brok wasthe officer
Editor's note: Occasionally we will use a feature
story or setious article submitted by Council 82
members. This one was chosen because ofits bizarre
nature and the coincidences involved. Names have
been omitted to preclude legal action,
taining several credit cards, checkbook, bankbook,
driver's license, badge and LD. card.
The officer immediately contacted the police.
They discovered a basement window had been pried
open.
hearing the dogs barking, she proceeded downstairs
tofind the kitchen a messand the dogschasing, what
sounded to be someone running out the
door.
‘Twodays later, about 7:15 p.m., she wasshopping.
he officer wasat
home with her mother and two daughters, Upon
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Newburgh. To her surprise
standing in front of her was a white female, two
black malesand.a small child. The female was pay-
ing for basket full of goods amounting to $211.68
with this officer's check, using this officer’s credit
ceards and driver's license for identification,
Upset and infuriated, the officer immediately told
the cashier the checkbook was stolen from her and
he check he
Senateand Assembly hear-
ingon April 20and 21 on
the of the
female denied the accusation, The cashier was con
fused. The officer directed the store personnel to call
events leading to the Jan-
uary uprising at Ossining.
The hearing will com-
mence at 10 a.m. both
days. It will be held in the
Van Buren Hearing
Address ..
ee Local no.
(A), second floor, Legis-
lative Office Building in
Albany
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black male. The other male fled the scene. Police
arrived and took them into custody. They later founel
‘other itemsstolen from the homes of IBM employees.
Police found one of the males and his brother were
inmates at Fishkill and had a sister incarcerated at
Bedford Hills CF,
Four days later, the officer was leaving her house
and noticed a car pulling up behind her. She recog-
nized the driver as the escaped suspect. She got the
license plate number and informed police. They ap-
prehended the man, The female is being held in
‘Orange County Jail with 42 charges pending, She
hhad cashed mote than $1,000 of the officer's checks.
