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NH: Jail employees to vote on the National Correctional Employees Union based in Springfield MA and started by MA guards

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Jail employees to vote on new union By Shira Schoenberg Created 12/08/2010 Concord NH Monitor Merrimack County- Labor board clears way for election Merrimack County corrections employees will vote later this month on whether to join a new union. The 113 workers - including corrections officers, shift supervisors, corporals, sergeants, lieutenants and others - will decide Dec. 17 whether to leave the State Employees' Association to join the National Correctional Employees Union. Both the SEA and the county have fought the election, but recent rulings by the Public Employee Labor Relations Board cleared the way for it to go forward. A majority vote is required to leave the union. "We're a younger organization, and we still have the concept that the union works for the members, the members don't work for the union," said Michael Nessinger, president of the National Correctional Employees Union...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 09, 2010 (boomark / email).