Guards union warns Wolf of legal action over vaccine mandate

[Omaha Steve]

https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-59833d5242e38ca83be315cecbf06ec5

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The union that represents about 10,000 guards in Pennsylvania’s state prisons told Gov. Tom Wolf Thursday it plans legal action to stop his effort to force them to get COVID-19 vaccines over the next month.

The president of the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association sent a letter to the Democratic governor two days after Wolf ordered the guards and some other state workers to get fully vaccinated by Sept. 7 or face weekly testing.

Union president John Eckenrode told Wolf his policy announcement was “a slap in the face — and frankly, way too late because thousands of our members already have been infected, due to your inaction.”

“This is the latest episode of what has been a woefully inconsistent vaccination/testing/masking policy by this administration in our state prisons,” Eckenrode wrote, adding the union “has instructed legal counsel to challenge this latest proposed policy change.”

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[Hoyt]

1. Unions are on the wrong side of this one.

[AllyCat]

4. Mine is fighting elements of ours at my hospital

Im pissed about it and they know it.

[JT45242]

2. this union is mostly Repubs and white supremacists

We know that for years that white supremacists have targeted law enforcement and the prison system to gather infomration, recruit members, etc.

This group will be largely trump humping supremacists.

they are on the wrong side of this -- plus they missed the memo that you can covid a second time and delta will ut you in the ground.

We should remember that the main purpose of this union is to cover up abuses of prisoners, usually those of color, while looking theother way when white supremacists attack people of color in the prison.

[CanonRay]

3. Prison guards I've known are very much right wing

this does not surprise me in the least.