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Little Union Support for adding 911 Dispatch to PERA Correctional Plan

The LCPR has posted Information from Stakeholders on it's work group site. At this point only one Union bothered to respond to the Working Group's inquiry and that is LELS! On first glance it looks like support for adding them, but a close read reveals otherwise. The letter is in favor of enhanced benefits for 911 Dispatchers but NEVER mentions adding them to the PERA Correctional Plan.

They then do something very curious. They (LELS) attach 7 testimonial letters allegedly from dispatchers and people in the industry, but there are NO NAMES with the letters! Anyone can write anonymously, even the same person. These letters do support adding 911 Dispatchers to the PERA Correctional Plan.

There's also a Workers Comp Claims sheet attached to the LCPR Working Group page.  It shows between 2003 and 2020 Dispatchers had 92 claims and Corrections Officers had 2,610! It doesn't show what the claims are for but we all know CO's are subject to assault and disease and dispatchers are not. Once again proving the point that CO's have a far more dangerous job, and we all know most incidents against CO's are not tracked.

So far the only support outside of dispatchers seems to be the MPPOA, which has no dispatchers, and a vague letter of support from LELS with a batch of nameless support testimonials. 

MNCORA will be communicating our opposition to adding 911 Dispatchers to the PERA Correctional Plan.

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