by Ron DeLord | Sep 14, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Politics, Unions
A Superior Court judge is set to issue an opinion on whether the City of Providence and its firefighters union will be headed to arbitration after the two sides failed to reach agreement on the mayor’s change in platoon scheduling. Mayor Jorge Elorza said he urged the...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
This country has made a lot of terrible financial blunders. Easily among the top ten would be the decision to allow public employees to form unions and engage in collective bargaining. Only a little more than 50 years old, that mistake has done prodigious harm to us...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
SACRAMENTO — The state’s public-employee unions are among the most powerful interest groups in the Capitol, yet an effort to sneak some language into a bill during the last week of the legislative session shows the degree to which even these lobbies fear a coming...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Last week’s wild gyrations in global financial markets almost certainly exposed the vulnerability of U.S. state and local authority public pension funds which have piled into riskier assets in recent years, according to actuaries and other pension experts. Based...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
The city of Milwaukee will try to get its unionized police officers to pay more of their pension contributions, under a discussion tied to Gov. Scott Walker’s push to end collective bargaining for most public employees in Wisconsin. The collective bargaining...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
As we head into the last few months of 2015, research suggests that unions are becoming more popular now than they have in a long time. And some of the biggest supporters are those who will make up our future generation of leaders – millennials. A recent Gallup...
