by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The city council approved a series of labor contracts with its police and fire unions on Tuesday night that will produce considerable immediate and long-term savings for overburdened property owners, said municipal officials. Immediate savings stem from elimination of...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The grainy security video shows Steven Rodgers, a 43-year-old Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police officer, inside his Miami Edison Senior High School office. His silver badge glints against the dark blue of his uniform as he grins into the camera. And his penis is...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
With all the pension scams in our state’s loophole-ridden system, even this we don’t allow: At the Port Authority, a bistate agency, employees are permitted to run up their lifetime pensions by heaping on overtime pay in their final years. Think about what...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
A half-cent sales tax on the Aug. 30 ballot got backing Monday from the Jacksonville Civic Council, an influential group of business executives that has been pushing since 2013 for a fix to the city’s pension woes. If approved by voters, the half-cent sales tax would...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
City hall has a golden opportunity this year to get its runaway labour costs under control. Four unions representing three-quarters of the city’s workforce will see their collective agreements expire at the end of the year, including police and firefighters. And that...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
As an advocate for victims of police brutality and their families, Michelle Gross has alternately worked with and needled Minneapolis city officials. During 30 years of activism, Gross has pursued many, if not most, ways for residents to improve police accountability,...
