by Ron DeLord | Jan 10, 2017 | Australian unions, Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions, United Kingdom
For the past 40 years, the majority of law enforcement personnel could depend on regular salary increases, better health care and pension benefits while reaping the advantages of belonging to a police union that was learning how to gain and use political power....
by Ron DeLord | Jan 10, 2017 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The Toronto Police Association is using tele-townhalls to poll residents and mobilize support to fight the city’s plan to reduce the $1 billion-plus police budget through downsizing and restructuring. The union is inviting tens of thousands of Torontonians to dial...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 20, 2016 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The City of Medicine Hat and its firefighters have agreed to a wage freeze in 2017. It is an almost unprecedented feat in public sector bargaining, but one budgeters said was needed to grapple with a looming shortfall. Council members, who unanimously ratified the...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The rising costs associated with keeping the Winnipeg Police Pension Plan afloat have forced the city to approach its police unions about changing it. Since the economic recession of 2008, years of low interest rates have made it difficult for many employers to meet...
by Ron DeLord | Oct 14, 2016 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Saint John and the union representing city police officers are haggling over whether wages for the force have gone up 40 per cent or 50 per cent in the last decade. The union has even accused the city of misleading the public on the issue of officers’ wages....
by Ron DeLord | Sep 26, 2016 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
There are still no answers for Mounties on when they can expect a long-awaited pay raise or form a union. Both issues are top of mind for members of the RCMP, who haven’t had a pay hike since January, 2014 and who remain in labour relations limbo. According to...
