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Health Care

Union boss demands Rikers worker fixes in letter to mayor

By
Conor Skelding
Published Sep. 25, 2021
Updated Sep. 25, 2021, 3:55 p.m. ET
Gresham asked the mayor to hire more guards at Rikers.
Gresham asked the mayor to hire more guards at Rikers. Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images

The boss of a powerful city union demanded safety fixes for hundreds of doctors, nurses and other health care workers assigned to the city’s jails.

Staffing shortages and violent threats have made it “increasingly difficult” for medical staff in jails, said George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.

“Workplace violence is unacceptable, and we demand corrective measures be taken immediately,” he wrote Mayor Bill de Blasio in a letter Saturday.

Gresham wants more jail guards throughout Rikers Island, including in clinics, an investigation into how contraband makes its way to inmates, and for authorities to break up housing-unit jail gangs.

The mayor’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, wrote a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio on the problems staff face at Rikers Island.Kevin C. Downs for NY Post