by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
A bill restricting the rights of citizens to record the police was filed in Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday. The House Bill 2918 introduced by Texas Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) would make private citizens photographing or recording the police...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
(Reuters) – An international accounting standards body said on Thursday it was looking at developing new accounting methods for “hybrid” pensions which did not fit easily into standard categories. Companies around the world are moving away from...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
When Mayor Ed Murray brought in Kathleen O’Toole to head the Seattle Police Department, he did so with the goal of ushering in the department’s federally mandated reforms. On Friday, O’Toole announced her largest step toward that goal so far, hiring four new assistant...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The police-involved killings that ignited nationwide outrage and federal investigations in the past year saw several stark similarities among the victims: They were mostly young, black, and unarmed. As for the officers in those high-profile cases, most who pulled the...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Labor, Politics, Unions
Ron Smith has been getting a lot of grief lately. Sitting in the SODO offices of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, dressed in jeans and a short-sleeve shirt revealing arms covered with tattoos, the bald and bearded union president is the first to admit it. He says...
