by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Unions
Once, being a police officer was a working-class job. Today, it is solidly middle-, even upper-middle, class. Officers enjoy excellent benefits, generous overtime pay and comfortable public-service pensions. Many can afford to retire at 50 or so. Statistics Canada...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Police, Politics, Unions
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The mayor of San Francisco said Tuesday that four police officers under investigation in the sending of racist and homophobic texts will be fired if the probe determines they sent the messages. Mayor Edwin M. Lee called the messages heinous and...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Last July more than half of Memphis’ police officers took sick days off to protest the reductions in the city’s contributions to their pension plan and increases in their contributions to the city’s health benefits plan. The national media was sympathetic with cases...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Baltimore County government ended a 70-year relationship with a consulting firm that gave advice on the county’s pension fund and sued the company, alleging it’s responsible for a multi-million dollar judgment against the county. The county is on the hook...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A spokesman for San Jose’s police union said Friday that labor and city officials may be closing in on a deal to roll back pension reform Measure B in exchange for cost savings and a resolution to a bitter, years-long legal and political conflict....
