The word for Youth Service Officers at Connecticut Juvenile Training School is solidarity. For years CJTS management used all types of divisive tactics to keep employees apart: using other YSOs as informers, implementing policy & procedure as cudgels to terminate YSOs, setting class distinctions between clinicians & YSOs. Historically oppressors always seek to divert attention from real problems of injustice, thus, no focus on solidarity. CJTS management has built a high wall of obfuscation between classes with sickening results. There seems to be very little inclination to fight for fair treatment from a corrupt management. This reluctance of demanding human decency from state agency administrators did not just appear suddenly, as if, by magic incantations. Well dear readers CJTS put together a diabolical plan to make certain worker solidarity would not exist at the plantation.
If meaningful change is to occur for YSOs then solidarity has to be a fulcrum used to start this process. When fear is overcome and replaced with determination, mountains can be moved. All is not not lost however, for several years a small vanguard of YSOs stood against management, and inspired their co-workers to resist ( albeit in non-visible ways ). Years from now perhaps history will record how solidarity plus determination overcame fear, oppression and treachery.
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