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TexasTowelie

(117,465 posts) Fri Jul 21, 2017, 11:28 PM Jul 2017

Union says some Kansas prison workers forced to work 16-hour shifts

TOPEKA -- A Kansas workers union said Friday that some employees at one of the state’s largest prisons are being forced to work 16-hour shifts as the facility deals with a staffing shortage and other issues.

The Kansas Organization of State Employees said in an email that a 16-hour shift violates an agreement that “no employee shall be mandated to work more than 12 hours in a 24 hour period.”

The union said a complaint has been filed with the Kansas Department of Corrections.

A spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections said in an email that the agency “has no comment at this time on what is a personnel matter.”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article163000798.html

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Union says some Kansas prison workers forced to work 16-hour shifts (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2017 OP

I did a 15 hour shift last week Skittles Jul 2017 #1

I did a lot of fifteen hour shifts TexasTowelie Jul 2017 #2

a couple of years ago I missed the entire Christmas season Skittles Jul 2017 #5

Employee!?!?! Onyrleft Jul 2017 #3

I don't believe that they were using the words "employee" and "prisoner" interchangeably. TexasTowelie Jul 2017 #4

Kansas for some reason, Maxheader Jul 2017 #6

Skittles

(160,236 posts)

1. I did a 15 hour shift last week

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Jul 21, 2017, 11:39 PM

Jul 2017

unpleasant, even for a desk job

TexasTowelie

(117,465 posts)

2. I did a lot of fifteen hour shifts

Reply to Skittles (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 21, 2017, 11:48 PM

Jul 2017

and sometimes there would be several in a row. However, the worst was when I was at work for 32 hours straight on a project. After about 18 hours the brain turns into quicksand. I don't believe I could put up with another 70 hour week again.

Skittles

(160,236 posts)

5. a couple of years ago I missed the entire Christmas season

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 02:54 AM

Jul 2017

three weeks straight of 12 hour night shifts

grueling

Onyrleft

(344 posts)

3. Employee!?!?!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 12:35 AM

Jul 2017

Why should anyone profit from the labor of a prisoner? My grandfather's grandfather set trators on fire for profiting from the labor of captives.

TexasTowelie

(117,465 posts)

4. I don't believe that they were using the words "employee" and "prisoner" interchangeably.

Reply to Onyrleft (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 12:46 AM

Jul 2017

The people that the article refers to are the guards and possibly some administrators who are state employees that are not only paid, but also have the state benefits package and belong to a union. I don't believe that the prisoners are part of a union.

Maxheader

(4,399 posts)

6. Kansas for some reason,

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 09:21 AM

Jul 2017

is a tough state to enforce laws
concerning forced labor. Even
with a union, if the situation is
valid...the warden would be
the only one left guarding the
prison...everyone else walks
the picket line. throw brownbacks
ass in there...let the traitor do a
few shifts.

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