by rondelord | May 22, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
TRENTON — Trenton City Council is expected to vote Thursday on two police contracts that call for 12-hour shifts and 5 percent pay raises over three years. Tentative agreements were reached with the Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local 11, the union for...
by rondelord | May 22, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Fifty protesters marched several miles from the Gilmor Homes housing project in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore to the police union’s headquarters in Hampden on Wednesday night on behalf of Freddie Gray. Standing in the street in front of...
by rondelord | May 22, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
VERO BEACH — City leaders are poised to scrap the pension plan for 330 employees and shift to a 401(k)-like retirement plan to dig their way out of a $37.5 million hole. The change would go into effect June 30. It would take 12 years to pay down the shortfall. The...
by rondelord | May 22, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Politics, Unions
The San Bernardino City Council approved its bankruptcy exit plan Monday on a 6-1 vote. The exit plan comes nearly three years after the city sought bankruptcy protection, with outsourcing services and impairing every creditor other than city employees’ pension system...
by rondelord | May 22, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Phoenix leaders voted 6-3 Tuesday to approve a final budget for the next fiscal year, but City Council members were sharply divided over whether the city truly balanced its books. On paper, the spending plan backed by Mayor Greg Stanton and the council’s liberal...
