TRYING TO STOP THE MOMENTUM BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

Finally the Youth Services Officers at Connecticut Juvenile Training School are fighting back. For years the Key Stone Cops administration at CJTS have been abusing their power by issuing harsher disciplinary measures for YSOs of color, allowing right wing employees to harass certain ethnic groups. It is also known that management condoned the double standard of letting certain Unit Leaders take inordinate amounts of time off while disciplining YSOs for taking  off work for legitimate reasons. Now all of this turmoil at CJTS plantation is turning into a bit of trouble for management to handle.

YSOs are now organizing against management and seeking to make it known ‘business as usual’ is not going to continue. A letter / petition was signed by quite a few YSOs and sent to state officials highlighting concerns from besieged employees. Next week Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz is scheduled to meet with agitated employees at CJTS plantation. Well hip hip hooray, another meeting from officials that will solve nothing. At this juncture management is trying to stop the momentum of employees by any means possible. Take the case of CJTS Superintendent William Rosenbeck asking to meet with employees in order to address their concerns. The only reason Rosenbeck tried such a ploy is because he realizes “the natives [employees] are restless” and this reflects badly on him. There were chances five years ago for Rosenbeck to be proactive in addressing employee concerns when former employee Cornell Lewis et al. pointed out racial animus on campus. However white management did everything possible to ignore Cornell and this action ultimately caused a lawsuit in 2010 by five employees. Of course true to the script management fired Cornell on a trumped up charge, and then breathed a sigh of relief. But the momentum almost five years later is with other YSOs who finally organized and are leading the charge.

Also management seeks to stop the momentum of employees by spreading disinformation to employees in order to confuse the people into focusing on non important matters. Linette Gaunichaux is a Unit Leader of impecciable standards at CJTS—for over 20 years. She is also a Union Steward who constantly holds management’s feet to the fire over issues and makes sure justice is served during grievance procedures. Needless to say white management has a problem with Linette, she is a strong black woman, and knows union articles in the handbook. White management tried to encourage a recently reinstated right wing employee to accuse Linetee of leaking CJTS information [incidents, reprimands, emails etc] to DCF Plantation blog staff writers. By using such underhanded methods Rosenbeck’s Key Stone Cops management team hoped to stir up racial animus toward Linette and divert employees from real issues. Let me be clear. The DCF Plantation blog gets information from dozens of sources through e-mail dcfplantation@gmail.com and other methods. By using Linette as a red herring management has mildly succeeded in momentarily inciting old hatreds aimed at a strong black woman. It is known CJTS management covertly campaigned against Linette being voted in as a Union Steward. Let this staff writer state Linetee does not provide information to DCF Plantation blog. Another method to stop employee momentum from swelling into an uprising is manipulation of incarcerated residents by a certain YSO. Sources reveal how a certain YSO has been whispering to residents about their rights and how to uphold them. On the surface this sounds commendable, but under the surface a sinister plan is being hatched. The YSO in question is asking residents if certain employees are treating them respectfully; the ploy is to get complaints, then help residents write grievances. The catch is that all the YSOS mentioned to residents by the [covert acting] YSO are so called leaders of the latest wave of discontent. In other words management is using this particular YSO to purposely manipulate residents into targeting people management wants to silence - as leaders of the petition / letter movement. Good lawdy Ms Claudy, management is pulling out all the tricknology in trying to quell YSOs momentum on the CJTS plantation. Like the cartoon character Felix the Cat, management has “a bag of tricks” that they open and are using vigorously against employees exercising their First Amendment Rights.