Labor / Management Meeting

Today we represented CCPOA during a Labor Management meeting with Upper management from CIM. We intend to try and have these meeting's on a Monthly basis, I must say our Warden has encouraged this meeting for sometime, and he wants to continue to have these open discussions.
We covered many topics and I won't bore you all with the many topics I will just hit a few that I found important.

We discussed Sick Substantiation during non-holiday days not covered in the MOU. The Warden is very adamant about his decision to request Sick Substantiation during Holiday long weekends. We are not in agreement with his views, we at the very least would like notice if he wants to require Substantiation on long weekends.

The Ranch gate will continue to run un-armed, we discussed this in detail. And as I was made aware of the policy, I now know why we don't arm the Ranch Gate. If you see Fred Stevens or myself we will explain their reasons.

MSF has many gates that have chains and locks securing them. This was discussed and was acted on very quickly. The gates will be fixed ASAP!

Ad-Seg overflow unit was discussed. And it is managements stand that they want to close this unit(overflow) as soon as possible. As the inmate populations are dropping. The recent gassing's were also discussed, whenever, reasonable Inmates with prior gassing jackets will be re-housed in Palm and Cypress.

The 3% and 5% staff reductions were also addressed. And once the staffing package is put together in full we will get a copy and a chance to address our concerns. We were told that our Code Responses will not be effected. There will be more to come on this issue.

We also wanted more information on YTS. Staffing packages were discussed along with the 12 hour shifts. I'm scared to say anything because these updates keep changing daily. As of right now, YTS falls under CIM, and our Warden has authority over that Facility. We also discussed the opening's of the dayrooms at YTS. And we were told that they are going to try and activate the YTS Gym for Recreation. We had many concerns over these topics as they effect Security of the Facility. We also discussed Security or lack there of, at YTS, I won't go talk in detail about this in an open forum.
Our main concern was the lack of input and the right to meet and confer over all impact issues as it relates to programs being implemented at YTS. We were told by management that we will start to meet and confer over impact issues at YTS.

Inmate Programs and populations: At MSF the numbers should drop off in the near future. The flat tops may close in the near future.
There is talk about closing all GYM's and Dayrooms, these numbers are also expected to decline in the near future.

Overall, on our side we felt the meeting went well and look forward to more dialogue with management in the near future.