lets vote them out -- Worcesrter County

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Subject: lets vote them out

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Date Posted: 13:22:28 04/04/08 Fri

WEST BOYLSTON— Correction officers at the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction are set to vote tomorrow on whether to leave the union that has represented them for the last dozen years and join an upstart new union that has up to now mainly been associated with police officers.

The decertification election is from 2 p.m.— 5 p.m. at the jail complex’s training center.

The vote among the 360 officers and sergeants will decide whether they leave the Massachusetts Correction Officer Federated Union and join the New England Police Benevolent Association, according to Peter Boyd, chief steward of the MCOFU local.

Mr. Boyd said he will run for president of the new union if members vote to decertify. He maintained that members have been dissatisfied with MCOFU’s representation for some time, and with the local’s 5-year contract expiring June 30, want to go with a union that will help them get better wages and benefits and safer working conditions.

Mr. Boyd noted that the Worcester County MCOFU chapter got total raises of 6 percent over the five years, while state correction officers also represented by MCOFU got 14 percent raises during the same period.

“We feel like we’ve been doormats of the administration for far too long,” Mr. Boyd said. “We’ve been saying for a long time that we want to make the same pay as the state correction officers.”

In recent months, both sides have been campaigning to win the jail employees’ votes.

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