03/09/2008

Reminder, nominations will be taken April 14th meeting for our elections in May. We are losing 3 preferred placement officers to GBCI, Officers Lepp, Graves, and Schaetz.  Losing 1 preferred placement to CCI Officer Springers.  Officer Jennell quit state service, and Officer Tetzlaff is promoting to Sergeant at DCI. We have 1 transfer in Sergeant Pflum from DCI. The Town of Taycheedah Town Board is seeking volunteer firefighters.  Approximately 20-30 volunteers would be needed to man and equip the station- Help your community people. I have received a letter from District Attorney O'Rourke requesting to co-write a story or commentary that would accent the good job we as officers perform regarding the difficulties that we face in dealing with this very dysfunctional population.  We have rejoined COCI (Coalition of Correctional Institutions) with a majority vote of our Executive Board Members. COCI is currently under new, stronger leadership. This is our greatest means of information sharing and crisis intervention for staff working in our facilities. See you at the meeting In Solidarity, Denise

03/23/2008

Please contact me if you need to update your address so your ballot for the ratification of the contract will be sent to your correct address. Anyone who has changed their name or moved needs to fill out a new green card. A bill that would protect state workers from John Doe lawsuits died on the Senate floor. Allowing inmates to use this law to harass staff and force us to foot our own legal bills. Perhaps some of the officer haters who voted against us being protected will foot our legal bills.   Arbitrations – March 27 Step 2’s – April