BUFFALO, N.Y. — The union representing corrections officers around the state is now responding to the report issued by the corrections department on that wildcat strike at state prisons, which started back in February.

Stephen Cox, who is the Recording Secretary of the New York State Corrections Officers Police Benevolent Association, puts it this way: "That wildcat strike definitely made some conversations happen , and it made them happen fast."

That's his union official assessment of the February through March non-sanctioned illegal strike by a state estimated 10,000 corrections officers at 38 prisons across New York, which the union technically had to condemn for its CO members.

Now the NYSCOPBA union is responding to the state government report issued back in May which went into g

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