It has been about a month since the leaders of the State of New York and the Correctional Services Department and Community Supervision (DOCC) said that the manager WildCat strike.
It was March 10 when Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive decree prohibiting the correction agents who were dismissed in the middle of the strike to be hired by local municipalities unless they follow a specific program.
This decree expires on Wednesday.
Hochul said that it would authorize parties of the order to expire on Wednesday – allowing local governments to hire the former state COs, but it also clearly indicated that it will prevent these officers from working more in state jobs.
The decree was criticized at the local level, in particular the part on local hiring. He brought about two proceedings from the counties of Cortland and Chemung which indicated that the order was an excessive excess and an abuse of power. Last week, a judge of the Supreme Court of the State in the county of Albany placed a temporary injunction against the ordinance in the county of Oneida, judging the county successfully showed irreparable damage not to be able to hire the separate officers to fill the vacant posts in the sheriff’s office and other local agencies.
The county of Rensselaer hired several former correction agents last month in defiance of the order.
Fixed: the executive decree was only applied to licensed prison employees, and not to those who resigned before the entry into force of the agreement.