DOCCS commissioner: COs still on strike Monday will lose health insurance
ALBANY – Daniel Martuscello, the commissioner of Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, said today that corrections officers who remain on strike on Monday will lose their health insurance.
Their dependents on their health insurance plans also will be cut off, and they won’t be eligible for health insurance through COBRA.
“My message to you is this is the final push,” Martuscello said in a message posted on the DOCCS Facebook page.
Corrections officers have been on strike for nearly two weeks, beginning at Elmira and Collins facilities on Feb. 17. By the next day the strike had spread to the majority of the prisons, including Albion and Orleans.
“I want you to come back to work today,” Martuscello said. “If you missed your shift, you should still report, and know that we will continue to have open dialogue on making facilities safer places to work.”
