by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
GEORGIA – No Whitfield County employee will see any changes to their benefits, but the county plans to provide a different set of benefits to employees hired after Feb. 1. “I want to make that clear,” said Board of Commissioners Chairman Mike Babb. “We have 500...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
How’s your 401(k) doing? If you have stocks in it, not well. How are government pensioners doing? Fabulously well, some of them. A database of pensions maintained by the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscal watchdog in Albany, shows firefighters retiring on up to...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 15, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The contract standoff between the City of San Antonio and the San Antonio Police Officers Association appears to be entering a new phase with release of a police union poll that takes aim at City Manager Sheryl Sculley’s compensation package and an expected contract...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 7, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Just kidding. After the city trumpeted this morning that a deal to hold more negotiations had been struck, the San Antonio Express-News reports that’s no longer the case. Additional negotiations were contingent upon the city dropping its appeal, which it will...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 7, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
SAN DIEGO — The state Public Employment Relations Board ordered the city of San Diego to offer retroactive pensions to about 2,000 city employees who were hired after voters approved a pension reform measure backed by Mayor Jerry Sanders in 2012. Proposition B, passed...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 7, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
When Miami state Rep. Carlos Trujillo was interviewed on Spanish language radio station Actualidad 1020 he boldly proclaimed that Republicans will ask voters in 2018 to eliminate collective bargaining for state employees from the Florida Constitution. “It is going to...
