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| Union head: Ricketts ignored our staffing requests for prison guards until this week |
| By omaha.com- Paul Hammel |
| Published: 08/30/2016 |
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LINCOLN — The chief of the union that represents state corrections officers said Friday that the union agrees with Gov. Pete Ricketts that something needs to be done soon to address low wages, mandatory overtime and high turnover among the security forces in state prisons. But Mike Marvin, executive director of the Nebraska Association of Public Employees, said that he disagrees with the governor on how that should be done, and he questions Ricketts’ sincerity in addressing the problems of front-line corrections workers. Marvin said the union has asked several times in recent months to open up labor negotiations, but those requests landed on “deaf ears” until Thursday, just after a new spate of assaults on prison workers. Read More. |
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