KKYIEEPING YOU INFORMED JANUARY 6, 2006 MCO FIGHTS DEPARTMENT ON HOLIDAY COMP-TIME POLICY CHANGE! After many years of past have consulted outside attorneys whatever method used by your practice, the Department has on the matter. MCO is requesting facility. If the institution refuses changed its policy of allowing an expedited arbitration on this your request you do NOT officers to comp holidays. issue. need to file a grievance. MCO’s MCO has filed an “et al” Officers who wish to choose “et al” grievance covers everyone. grievance, which means it covers comp-time, in lieu of pay, should the entire bargaining unit, and we continue requesting it through IN MEMORIAM Officer Todd James, 31, from NEED COLLEGE CREDITS TO REACH STATUS? the SAI Bootcamp was killed Former FSA? Council to offer the Corrections in a motorcycle accident on New Officer? Or Vocational Certificate. October 14, 2005. just interested in Or, you can take classes from In addition to being a drill taking a class in these and other accredited instructor he was a member of Corrections? institutions in the areas of the Honor Guard, Facility Many schools psychology, corrections, criminal Officer of the Year for 2004, now offer online courses. This justice, law enforcement, sociology and received the MDOC Life makes getting those credits out and pastoral counseling. Saving Award in 2002. of the way even easier, especially But you have to hurry! He leaves behind his wife, when trying to coordinate con- Many of these schools are Kim and a daughter, Ashley flicting work and school schedules. registering now for the winter James. Check out our website semester. And, there is often a (www.mco-seiu.org) for a compre- limit to the number of online hensive list of Community students allowed per class per Colleges in Michigan who have semester! been approved by the Training OFFICER STRUCK AT PARNALL On December 26th, an officer at Parnall received several stitches when his tooth broke through his lip after a prisoner struck him in the face. When an officer instructed the prisoner to submit to a shakedown, he turned and ran from the food service area. The officer involved followed. A second officer arrived on scene to find the prisoner with his fists raised ready to combat the pursuing officer. After refusing to comply and be restrained on several occasions, the two officers approached to forcibly restrain the prisoner. One was then struck in the face and knocked to the ground. This inmate had threatened other staff and had exhibited violent behavior in the previous 24 hours yet he remained in general population. FROM THE OFFICE OF MCO PRESIDENT TOM TYLUTKI, SEIU LOCAL 526M sc:opeiu459aflcio KKYIEEPING YOU INFORMED JANUARY 13, 2006 GAS MASK LETTER OF AGREEMENT MINIMUM STAFFING KEY SIGNED TOPIC IN MEETING In December, MCO and the may sign the Today, President Tom Tylutki MDOC signed a Letter of Agree- sheet for and Executive Director Mel ment on Gas Masks. their shift if Grieshaber attended a Depart- While there were a number interested in mental Labor Management of changes in the agreement, you being on the Meeting between the DCH and should take note of three major exemption MCO. revisions that were made. list. On July While many issues were 1. Approved medical 1, the sign up period is closed and addressed, minimum staffing exemptions still displace seniority the lists for that year will be levels were the main topic of based exemptions. However, created. The lists are to be concern. Stay tuned... under the new agreement, a completed and sent concurrently more senior approved medical to MCO Central Office and to exemption can displace a less DOC Central Office Human Senator senior medical exemption from Resources no later than July 15th. Schauer introduced the list on their shift. 3. MCO represented the two Corrections 2. Rather than polling employees in transportation or Bills we mentioned in the employees, sign up sheets for all alert response/security perimeter 12.16.05 KYI. three shifts are to be posted on vehicle assignments cannot be June 1 of each year. Employees placed on the exemption list. Check out the full text of the bills at RASH OF SHANKS FOUND AT KCF www.legislature.mi.gov. Within a 16-hour shake down the entire floor of the period around housing unit where these shanks They are SB 948 -Private January 9th, were found. No further weapons Youth Prisons, and four shanks were confiscated, however an SB 949 - Private and a slashing inmate on a different floor of the Prisons. weapon were found by officers on same unit was sent to segregation a floor in a housing unit at KCF. for threatening an officer during One inmate was placed in the shakedown. Seg as a result, however the other The Seg unit continues to be MICHIGAN CORRECTIONS ORGANIZATION weapons were found in common near capacity resulting in some SEIU LOCAL 526M 421 W. KALAMAZOO areas and are believed to have inmates being released early to LANSING, MI 48933 been in place to use on staff. open a spot for incoming inmates. (517) 485-3310 On the 11th the yard was 1 (800) 451-4878 closed and officers were pulled to WWW.MCO-SEIU.ORG FROM THE OFFICE OF MCO PRESIDENT TOM TYLUTKI, SEIU LOCAL 526M sc:opeiu459aflcio KKYIEEPING YOU INFORMED JANUARY 20, 2006 MCO MOVES HOLIDAY/ CRITICAL AT CHIPPEWA INJURES FOUR OFFICERS COMP-TIME GRIEVANCE On Saturday, January 14th, a the inmates involved. The “et al” grievance on the prisoner, whose room was being Four officers required hospi- holiday/comp-time issue is shook down, disobeyed orders to tal treatment and three were moving forward. MCO and wait in the day room and ran hospitalized. Three of the four MDOC labor relations have down the hall to his cell. Officers officers sustained injuries requir- already met at third step and the radioed ahead to the officer ing stitches. The fourth is under- MDOC has agreed to expedite conducting the shakedown to going further examination for a their answer. warn him but as he stepped out knee injury. One officer needed of the cell the prisoner began to 7 stitches on his face, 4 staples in punch him. the head, and suffered a broken MAX PAY When officers responded nose. ARBITRATION four additional prisoners who, had MCO appreciates R.P.A. been waiting in the hallway after MacMeekin’s response to this The Arbitration on CTO chow, assaulted them. A fourth incident, taking Tom’s call on a Max Pay has been scheduled officer from the unit was also Sunday afternoon, and immedi- for Friday, January 27, 2006, attacked. ately making sure that the at MCO Central. Responding staff were quick appropriate actions were being and successful taken, including a shakedown. in restraining CTO COMMITTEE MEETS The first meeting of the CRITICAL Kudos go out to the Officers CTO Committee occurred at AT at Chippewa and Standish MCO Central yesterday, Jan. 19th. for doing a great job. STANDISH A critical The prisoner who was COY FINALIST occurred in attacked was transported to the SELECTION TODAY the Transition Unit while it was local hospital where he required breaking for chow on Monday, 24 stitches to close his wounds. The MDOC and MCO January 16, 2006 at Standish Max. One staff member was also met jointly today along with As the prisoners were being injured in the assault and was last year’s MCOY Kenneth released, one inmate exited his cell treated at the hospital and Hatfield to narrow down the and attacked another inmate released. list and select the five finalists knocking him unconscious. Prisoners eat in this unit to be interviewed for the 2006 Unit staff responded, which is why staffing levels are a Michigan Corrections Officer restrained the assaultive inmate, critical issue. Last year an inmate of the Year. Deliberations and escorted him to Seg. while was murdered in this unit. were ongoing at time of print. remaining staff provided first aid. FROM THE OFFICE OF MCO PRESIDENT TOM TYLUTKI, SEIU LOCAL 526M sc:opeiu459aflcio KYIKEEPING YOU INFORMED JANUARY 27, 2006 OFFICERS CONFISCATE CTO MAX PAY ARBITRATION CELL PHONE AT CAMP HEARING TODAY BRANCH The CTO Max Pay Arbitration Hearing On Decem- occurred today at MCO Central in front of ber 28, 2005, Arbitrator Dave Grissom. an officer was Briefs are due March 6th. and we should have making rounds an answer by the end of April. with a RUO President Tylutki, who attended the hearing, had this to say, when the officer noticed suspi- “We will have to see how this all shakes out, but this was an act of cious activity by a prisoner in bad faith on the part of the Department and I am disappointed the bathroom. He opened the that it has come to this.” curtains and found a prisoner sitting on a toilet with his hands PRISONERS AT PARNALL GAIN ACCESS TO KEYS in his sweat pants attempting to On January 25th., several handcuff keys were found in the yard at conceal a cell phone. Parnall. After closing the yard and conducting a more intensive search When the officer gave the using metal detectors, approximately 10 more handcuff keys were order to hand over the cell phone found. the prisoner failed to comply, Later that day it was determined that three 5-gallon buckets full leaving the cell phone in his pants. of various institutional keys, handcuffs and handcuff keys (which the Then, when ordered to submit to facility had considered out of service or inoperable) had been put in a strip search, he refused and an unsecured trash dumpster outside the secured area of the facility.