A consistent theme in my organizing efforts of state workers against bias in the workplace has been
extreme discipline is aimed at employees of color. And this is not a false statement, because Freedom of Information Act documents prove, 66% of all severe disciplines affect employees of color. DCF plantation mantra for two years has been " white administrators are after black-- latino employees." However, it does not escape the notice of this website about a point; workers of different ethnic backgrounds receive the same kind of disrespectful treatment as blacks and latinos. In other words Department of Children & Families plus Connecticut Juvenile Training School treats most employees like horse manure.It is my change in viewpoint that brings a new epiphany " all workers must unite." The e-mails received at dcfplantation@gmail.com from all kinds of state workers are both inspirational and sad: workers trapped in state agencies encumbered by suffociating state bureaucracy that creates 'spirit death' among employees. "All workers must unite."
In order to bring about the kind of freedom from management oppression workers want requires inner resolve. Until recently only a few CJTS workers [ DCFPlantation 5 ] have attempted to standup to bias, racism or discrimination. However, as the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus points out " change is a important element." Change is coming to the DCFPlantation, it will not be something which occurs suddenly; people in power will throw road blocks in workers way. We have to also acknowledge state employees sold out to self aggrandizement will betray the cause of worker unity. In the final analysis my change in viewpoint is fixed in the ideological heavens: "all workers must unite."
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