by rondelord | Jul 25, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
WASHINGTON — As the Justice Department weighed its strategy for responding to the crisis that engulfed the Baltimore Police Department earlier this year, top police union officials found themselves in a most unlikely place: a conference table in the Justice...
by rondelord | Jul 25, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
An Anniston police officer who was fired last month over his membership in an alleged hate group has appealed to the city’s civil service board. Lt. Josh Doggrell, identified in a post by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog as a member ofthe...
by rondelord | Jul 25, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Last time around, Chuck Reed seized the third rail of California politics – launching the Hugest! Pension! Battle! Ever! – and suffered the inevitable burn. This time around, he’s more circumspect, but perhaps no less menacing to the status quo. Reed, a low-key...
by rondelord | Jul 13, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
When Jim Palermo was serving as a trustee of the village of La Grange, Ill., he noticed something peculiar about the local police officers and firefighters. They were not going to live as long as might be expected, at least according to pension tables. After Mr....
by rondelord | Jul 13, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
State Right-to-Work laws generally allow any employee to opt out of paying union dues completely. As we have previously covered, such laws, which traditionally have been popular in the South, more recently have been adopted by the state legislatures in “rust belt”...
