by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Pat Lynch, the longtime president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, is betting he can secure a better contract than other city workers by not dealing directly with the de Blasio administration. The gamble—that the P.B.A. can get a preferable deal in...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Two years after Phoenix voters approved an overhaul of the city’s pension system for thousands of civil workers, the city could ask voters to go back and clean up some weak spots and unintended consequences. City Council members will decide Wednesday whether to...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Police, Politics
Taser International, the stun-gun maker emerging as a leading supplier of body cameras for police, has cultivated financial ties to police chiefs whose departments have bought the recording devices, raising a host of conflict-of-interest questions. A review of records...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
A Tucson police union is demanding an apology from a city councilman who said cops might “just go in and start whacking kneecaps with billy clubs” at a downtown homeless camp. Councilman Steve Kozachik’s gaffe came at a city council study session Tuesday. He had just...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
What was to be a brief talk about Costa Mesa’s top-ranking police officers contributing more to their pension funds turned into a heated argument during Tuesday’s City Council meeting, with one council member accusing another of illegally disclosing...
