The 22-day walkout by thousands of corrections officers at more than 40 New York State prisons is over, with thousands of officers losing their jobs. The state and the officers struck a deal to end the strike over the weekend, and several thousand agreed to return to work on Monday.
However, more than 2-thousand COs who didn’t accept the deal, and didn’t return to work, were fired. New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order banning state agencies from hiring any of the fired workers who took part in the strike.
North Country Assemblyman Billy Jones called Hochul’s order, “vindictive.”