Union details safety demands: body cams, keys, and protective gear
Wells details union safety demands, including body cameras, returning keys to hall staff, and protective gear. He says there is a severe staff shortage and questions where the policy and accountability are when policies are violated.
We said, let's bring in body cams.
No further discussion about body cams.
We asked for body cams.
They had a policy where...
They took the keys away from the workers on the hall and had a person assigned in the hallway with the keys.
One, you have a staff shortage, a severe staff shortage.
Two, you're asking this person in the hall.
You believe that there's currently a staff shortage?
It's a staff shortage for two reasons.
One, because some people...
Find that this is not their job, but people are getting hurt and they're staying out.
And so there's a staff.
So we asked for a budget that had counted earlier.
We talked about they make plans.
They said they created uniforms to escort kids to school.
That's a YDS job.
When did you make that decision that you were going to do this?
What was the discussion with this union, okay, to do this?
So we don't see that.
The commissioner just got here.
And we've met three or four times already.
But as I told her when we met last time, we're not going to just meet to meet.
We're not just going to meet to have you talk about programs.
What should they do?
Listen, I've been advocating.
Are you guys, when you're meeting, are you guys coming with suggestions?
Well, we have suggestions.
We have done suggestions.
Some of their stuff is our suggestions.
So they are taking your feedback and some of it.
Well, I don't know.
Well, in the long run.
And that's not a bad thing.
No, no, no.
In the long run, some of the stuff, yes.
But in the short term, the protective gear, they're giving the keys back to the people on the dome.
That unilocks everybody in this title because we need all hands on deck.
Where's the policy?
What happens when policies are violated?
Who's held responsible?
There's no policy.
Okay, since June 21st, which was a major riot, where they did refuse to let the police in, it took hours to get control.
Where's the policy that says,
It's very simple, sister.