by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
SAN DIEGO —A proposed ballot measure unveiled Thursday would reduce pension payments for state and local government employees in the nation’s most populous state. Former San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio and former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed will try to tap the...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Politics
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s state troopers and corrections officers have a message for legislators considering a pension overhaul for state and public school workers: Don’t include us. Joseph Kovel, president of the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association, told a...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
A recent study pegged the debt of state and local government pension plans at $4.7 trillion. If politicians and voters fail to adopt reforms, younger people will be stuck paying off a massive and growing debt they did not create or approve. State and local government...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Four years after a strident confrontation with organized labor he later regretted laid the groundwork for a more cooperative relationship, Mayor Rahm Emanuel will strike a dramatically different tone on Wednesday. The mayor has summoned leaders of virtually every...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Police, Politics, Unions
CLEVELAND, Ohio — An arbitrator who overturned the suspensions of four Cleveland police supervisors involved in a 2012 police chase and shooting wrote in a decision made public Tuesday that the city failed to properly train the officers. Dennis Minni also...
