JFS worker fired for lynching comment reinstated


YOUNGSTOWN

An arbiter has ordered Helen Youngblood, president of American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 2001, reinstated to her $50,960-a-year job as a training officer at the Mahoning County Department of Job and Family Services.

Robert E. Bush Jr., JFS director, who recommended she be terminated “for gross misconduct,” said she would be returning to work “as soon as practical, probably within the next week.”

The county commissioners fired her, effective Nov. 9, for asking a supervisor in an email if the supervisor had a lynching rope ready for a disciplinary meeting for Youngblood’s coworker.

The arbiter ruled that Youngblood, of Coitsville Road, Campbell, a county employee since March 1980, should be suspended without pay for six months.

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