by rondelord | May 30, 2015 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Calgary’s police union president claims a lack of maternal benefits is hurting attempts to recruit female police officers, but Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Monday it hasn’t stopped women from joining law enforcement. “I certainly have not seen any evidence of that...
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 | Feb 22, 2015 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
TORONTO – The Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne is entering into tough salary talks with several public sector groups: Doctors, teachers — and cops. Having hiked salaries to the stratosphere over the past decade, the government now faces the unenviable task...
by rondelord | Feb 22, 2015 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The Mounties need a big raise to catch up with rival police forces and attract quality recruits, an internal report has found. The RCMP Pay Council has compiled a “business case” that calls for a 10-per-cent raise, stating RCMP members have fallen far behind other...
by rondelord | Jan 26, 2015 | Canadian unions, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The brazen shootings of Canadian police officers remain tragic exceptions that shouldn’t result in overreaction, observers cautioned as the shooting of two Mounties in Alberta thrust the issue of officer safety into the national spotlight. The incident north of...
by rondelord | Jan 20, 2015 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
OTTAWA— The Conservative government was mum Friday on a stunning ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that overturned itself and declared the law that bans Mounties from forming a union is unconstitutional. The high court said an in-house labour relations scheme that...
