by Ron DeLord | Jan 10, 2017 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Underfunded government pensions to the tune of $1.3 trillion, with a gap that just can’t be filled, is the ticking time bomb facing the US economy, which faces dramatic cuts in public services and potentially riots reminiscent of Athens six years ago. Danielle...
by Ron DeLord | Oct 23, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Police Department got a strange request from a local citizen. The SPD had been running a pilot program in which officers wore body cameras, and the person was asking for access to every piece of footage the department had collected up to that point. Under the Freedom...
by rondelord | Jun 29, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
(Reuters) – Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mayor William Courtright said on Thursday the state should take over the city’s pension system after a report found problems with past benefit awards in one of the funds. Courtright, a Democrat, said the most recent...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Body cameras aren’t new, but since the spate of high-profile violent encounters between police and unarmed citizens — Michael Brown, Chris Lollie, Eric Garner, Marlene Pinnockand others — they’ve been at the center of our debate about how to reduce these types of...
by rondelord | Dec 31, 2014 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Bruce Rauner, a Republican, liked to talk tough about unions and public-sector pensions when he was campaigning for governor in Illinois. “The system is full of fraud and self-dealing and abuses, such as folks who have a pay rise in the last years of their...
