by rondelord | Aug 22, 2015 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The city of Chicago is the local government most burdened by unfunded retirement plans in the nation, with a pension debt that’s more than eight times annual revenues, according to a new study by Moody’s Investors Service. The city’s unfunded pension...
by rondelord | Aug 22, 2015 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
DALLAS – The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System helps support our first responders in their retirement. It has come under intense scrutiny over millions of dollars in questionable investments, and now sources tell News 8 the FBI has made contact with certain...
by rondelord | Aug 22, 2015 | Labor, Police, Unions
Grand juries have proven capable of handing down nearly any indictment requested by prosecutors… if it’s just a citizen on the receiving end. What’s normally a rubber-stamping of charge recommendations tends to fall apart when a police officer is the...
by rondelord | Aug 22, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two former Cleveland police chiefs, a former Ohio lieutenant governor, a prominent civil rights attorney and a number of activists are among the nearly 200 people who’ve applied to become members of a commission that will recommend how to...
by rondelord | Aug 22, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Politics, Unions
Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the New Orleans City Council have until Aug. 21 to begin paying firefighters a judgment worth a potential $142 million, or they will be held in contempt, a Civil District Court judge told officials Thursday (Aug. 6). The council is scheduled...
