End prison guards’ illegal strike: Public employees cannot walk off of their jobs

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End prison guards’ illegal strike: Public employees cannot walk off of their jobs

We feel for the corrections officers who say they’re struggling with impossible conditions in prisons across the state, but state law rightly prohibits walkouts by government employees and they must get back to work. There are 42 facilities where some 31,000 people convicted of crimes go to serve their time, and in 41 of them, at least some guards are engaged in an illegal wildcat strike, which supposedly law-and-order Republican politicians are…