by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
It was five years ago today that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker “dropped the bomb,” in his words, introducing legislation to strip public employee unions of their right to collective bargaining. It was a move that split Wisconsin and led to weeks of protests. How has it...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
SAN DIEGO — A state appeals court ruled this week that four San Diego city employee unions aren’t entitled to $1.7 million in attorney’s fees from a 2010 lawsuit over the pension contributions of city workers. The pension litigation was settled in 2013, with the city...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
If you know one of the board members of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund or the still-new administration team for the pension fund, you might send them a note of thanks today – along with a couple of Advil. Much depends on whether the pension fund’s new...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Should the Supreme Court rule for the plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association—as, given what transpired in oral arguments, seems eminently likely—the right-wing backlash against organized labor of the last several years, from the stripping of...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Council gave away the store As a story about the expected shortfall in the city’s pension fund pointed out, the fund paid $61 million in bonuses to three-quarters of its 30,000 retirees last year (“Investment losses hurt Phila.’s future,”...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Unfunded public pensions threaten the fiscal solvency of states and localities across the country. And California is not immune. Back in 2012, San Diego voters recognized the threat and overwhelmingly supported Proposition B, a set of pension reforms that is helping...
