by Ron DeLord | May 17, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
For a long time, Chicago officials have been writing checks—big checks—to families of people victimized by city cops. According to the nonpartisan, nonprofit Better Government Association, the City of Chicago shelled out over half a billion dollars between 2004 and...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Should the Supreme Court rule for the plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association—as, given what transpired in oral arguments, seems eminently likely—the right-wing backlash against organized labor of the last several years, from the stripping of...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing has released a long list of reforms to American policing, some of which, including independent police prosecutions and dramatically scaling back the role of police in schools, are true advancements. However,...
by rondelord | Jan 14, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Gotham’s thin blue wall is fracturing from all sides. In recent months, New York City has been rocked first by protests over police brutality, then by harsh tensions in the wake of two police slayings, and now an apparent unofficial “job action” by...