Poor oversight by California's corrections department has allowed leaders of the guards union to spend work time on union business without approval, a problem that could allow some guards to retire with bigger taxpayer-funded paydays than they would otherwise receive, according to a report released Thursday by a prison watchdog agency. The report described incompetent record-keeping that may have cost the state millions of dollars and allowed some union representatives to simply stop showing up for work to instead do union chores without any authorization.
See "Watchdog slams prisons over guards' union work", Mark Martin, San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 2006