by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions, United Kingdom
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has warned fat officers there is no place for them on the force. Britain’s most senior policeman said when the public and other officers called for help they did not expect someone to come “waddling...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
By Buddy Nevins, BrowardBeat.com, Special to EyesOnNews.com, June 1, 2015 – A Sarasota-based arm of the AFL-CIO has its eyes on the Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies. Over 2,000 deputies and sergeants will vote later this summer on whether they want the International...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The City of Omaha’s two pension funds earned smaller investment returns last year as the city tries to dig itself out of its pension shortfall. The city expects a return of about 8 percent each year. In 2014, the fire and police pension fund returned 4.9 percent and...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
They’re the little extras tacked on to “pensionable pay” – from mainstays like chunks of unused leave time to such oddities as the “motorcycle bonus” and “confined space pay.” Add them up, and some public workers in Orange County are boosting their “final average...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
This is a particularly bad year to put more fiscal stress on towns. Hats off to House Speaker Brendan Sharkey and Minority Leader Themis Klarides for apparently blocking a bill that would have done so. The bill, passed by the Senate 25-11 earlier in the week, has two...
