by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Fire, Labor, Police, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Baton Rouge police officers, firefighters and the lowest-paid city workers in the Department of Public Works should soon see pay raises after years of pushing for increases when city leaders have deemed the budget too tight. After failing again in December to add...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
When vandals threw paint on a memorial for fallen Denver police officers, their actions — and Chief Robert White’s reaction to them — brought to a head long-simmering discontent in the department. White ordered his officers to stand down as the memorial was...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Police, Politics, Unions
Officers in the Baltimore school system’s police force won’t be able to carry guns inside schools any time soon. The city’s delegation in Annapolis effectively killed legislation Friday that would have lifted the prohibition, putting an end to a...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Try this one on. Sheryl Sculley for president. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got me thinking on this. You see, not so awfully long ago, Walker was running Milwaukee County much as City Manager Sculley has responsibilities for day-to-day operations of more populous San...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Los Angeles’ police officers on Friday secured a tentative contract agreement that would raise their pay by 8.2% over the next four years, the most generous package of concessions Mayor Eric Garcetti’s administration has offered an employee union. If...
