by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police
The most immediate challenge awaiting the newly-elected mayor and City Council after June 13 is the impasse in collective bargaining talks between the City and the police union, and the refusal of the firefighters union after more than one year to even come to the...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
House GOP leaders are creating a congressional task force on law enforcement practices in the wake of the Baltimore and Ferguson riots, several lawmakers confirmed to POLITICO. House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Republican Policy...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Days after the launch of two newspaper database projects aimed at tracking killings by police officers, two Democratic senators announced Tuesday that they will introduce legislation that would require all states to report to the Justice Department anytime a police...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
HAWORTH — The union representing the borough’s police officers sent postcards to every residential address in Haworth last week complaining about what its members perceive as a lack of progress in negotiations for a new, four-year contract. The officers’ last contract...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The state comptroller’s new effort to curb the skyrocketing costs of controversial “compounded medicine” prescriptions has prompted a labor-management dispute with state employee unions that is headed for binding arbitration on Sept. 23. Taxpayer...
