by Ron DeLord | Oct 13, 2015 | Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions, United Kingdom
Widows of police officers are to visit Downing Street to campaign against pension rules they say force some of them into “a life of solitude”. Under current rules in England and Wales, the pensions of thousands of police officers would be cancelled if they died and...
by rondelord | Feb 22, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The chief of Seattle’s largest police union has told members to “go [work] someplace else” if they are not willing to police the city’s racially diverse population without prejudice, marking a notable call for change from among the city’s rank-and-file officers who...
by rondelord | Feb 3, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
US policing activists will sit alongside the subjects of their criticism this weekend, as part of a White House plan to ease relations between the two groups. President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing is scheduled to hold its second public session on...
by rondelord | Jan 20, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Many cities have experienced occasional outbreaks of the “blue flu”. Police officers get angry over a contract dispute or an argument with the mayor, and for a few days, refuse to report for work or write fewer tickets. But only New York City has ever experienced...