by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, today trounced a challenger and won his fifth term as leader of the union representing the city’s 24,000 rank-and-file police officers. Mr. Lynch—who has led the union since 1999—took 70 percent of...
by rondelord | Feb 3, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Mayor Bill de Blasio shot down reports that the Democratic National Committee was wary of holding the party’s 2016 convention in Brooklyn due to the mayor’s fraught relationship with police unions. The mayor has aggressively been promoting the Barclays Center in his...