by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Past and present Joplin firefighters and police officers testified Tuesday about changes in the city of Joplin’s Police and Firemen’s Pension Fund that resulted in a lawsuit. The one-day trial in Jasper County Circuit Court in Joplin involved a 2011...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
WASHINGTON — For several years, the Obama administration has urged state insurance regulators to use tools provided by the Affordable Care Act to hold down health care premiums. Now federal officials will have a chance to practice what they preach as they confront big...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
A longtime St. Louis civil rights group and big labor are working to build closer ties in an effort the two groups say is part of a new focus that will continue beyond election season. AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre was in St. Louis Thursday to meet...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
New Jersey’s fiscal and economic future depends on how we answer a simple question: Do we have the courage to reform a broken pension system that’s driving us towards insolvency? There are some hopeful signs that the answer is “yes,” but if the state legislature gets...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
MEMPHIS, TN – The new pension plan for Memphis City employees with fewer than seven and a half years on the job is now in place. Mayor Jim Strickland says, for younger employees, the new hybrid pension plan is better. But the police and firefighters association,...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
In January 2013, Gov. Jerry Brown bragged about the state’s new commitment to fiscal responsibility. He talked about “living within our means and not spending what we don’t have.” A year later, in his State of the State address, Brown insisted that “fiscal discipline...
