by rondelord | Jun 23, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The New York City Council approved a new package of disability pension benefits on Wednesday for police officers and firefighters in what union representatives and some council members described as a surreptitious process. With little public notice other than an...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police
The most immediate challenge awaiting the newly-elected mayor and City Council after June 13 is the impasse in collective bargaining talks between the City and the police union, and the refusal of the firefighters union after more than one year to even come to the...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The state comptroller’s new effort to curb the skyrocketing costs of controversial “compounded medicine” prescriptions has prompted a labor-management dispute with state employee unions that is headed for binding arbitration on Sept. 23. Taxpayer...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
They’re the little extras tacked on to “pensionable pay” – from mainstays like chunks of unused leave time to such oddities as the “motorcycle bonus” and “confined space pay.” Add them up, and some public workers in Orange County are boosting their “final average...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
This is a particularly bad year to put more fiscal stress on towns. Hats off to House Speaker Brendan Sharkey and Minority Leader Themis Klarides for apparently blocking a bill that would have done so. The bill, passed by the Senate 25-11 earlier in the week, has two...
by rondelord | May 30, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
It’s been nearly two months since the city of San Antonio and the San Antonio Police Officers Association last met to discuss a new collective bargaining agreement. That stalemate is expected to drag on even longer, city officials said. The two sides last met on March...
