by Ron DeLord | Mar 13, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
A conservative city councilman called on Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson Thursday to freeze all city employees’ wages for three years if her income-tax hike request on Tuesday’s ballot is approved. “The city’s … general fund [salary cost has] increased $13.6 million...
by rondelord | Feb 12, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The union representing police patrolmen — which was once led by Mayor D. Michael Collins — voted down a proposed three-year contract that was hammered out last week with the mayor days before he suffered a cardiac arrest. Toledo Chief of Staff Robert Reinbolt and...
by rondelord | Feb 3, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The costly settlement the Collins administration and Toledo City Council approved this week with police command officers was a legal surrender that avoided a possibly much larger payout. Still, the $1.27 million that will be split among 149 police sergeants,...
by rondelord | Oct 1, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
OHIO – A state appeals court agreed in a decision that the Toledo police command officers’ union is entitled to binding arbitration over the “exigent circumstances” that were unilaterally imposed on its contract four years ago. The complicated 30-page ruling,...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2014 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Toledo police union leaders sent a letter today to city council and Mayor D. Michael Collins calling for “appropriate punishment” of Councilman Larry Sykes, who, in April, accused two Toledo police officers of “profiling.” An internal police investigation ruled the...