Union leaders have told Delaware lawmakers that there are staffing shortages at many of the youth rehabilitation centers.
Donald McIlvane is president of an AFSCME Local union and a counselor at the Stevenson House Detention Center said that many employees have been forced to work overtime.
As a result he told WBOC that they faced dangerous and violent behavior.
But the Secretary for the Department of Children, Youth and their Families Josette Manning told the joint finance committee that the union leaders are misrepresenting how often there are violent incidents.
She said staff do not face violence on a daily basis.
