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(116,799 posts) Mon Jan 17, 2022, 12:05 AM Jan 2022

Correction officers' union sees early wins under Adams administration

The de Blasio administration did not have the best relationship with the city’s correction officers’ union. But in two weeks, that’s all changed.

"To state that I am placating, those who know me know I do not placate,” said Mayor Eric Adams. "I respect union workers.”

Adams says a change in direction on Rikers Island is not a sign that he is bowing to the city’s correction officers’ unions.

It comes as some critics and advocates claim the correction officers’ union is exerting more control over the city’s troubled jail complex, it's a message coming from the outgoing commissioner.

Read more: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/01/15/correction-officers--union-sees-early-wins-under-adams-administration#

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Correction officers' union sees early wins under Adams administration (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2022 OP

This article exposes the worst stuff I've heard about Eric Adams' mayoralty cloudythescribbler Jan 2022 #1

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1. This article exposes the worst stuff I've heard about Eric Adams' mayoralty

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Mon Jan 17, 2022, 02:28 AM

Jan 2022

note: cross-posted to both threads

The title of the article seems misleadingly innocuous, but when you read the whole article the picture of what is happening in the prison system is just HORRENDOUS

I have been rooting for Adams for many reasons -- he seems to bring an approach that could just possibly bring key needed reforms to NYC where elite liberals like De Blasio have only had very limited success. (Maya Wiley for all her anti-Blasio rhetoric seems quite similar to how De Blasio was seen 8 years ago)

Much of the carping about Adams (like referring to low-skill jobs -- which is as Braverman has analyzed brilliantly, a reality and a huge class conflict issue) seems gratuitous or formalistic, but this stuff about the prison system is huge, and I don't see any positive way at all to spin it

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