by Ron DeLord | Jun 6, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Chicago taxpayers will save $1 billion on police and fire pension costs in the short term under a law the General Assembly approved Monday after some House Republicans bucked their governor, who had railed against it as a ridiculous expansion of the Illinois’...
by Ron DeLord | May 31, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
A seemingly growing rift between union members and other factions of the Democratic Party could present an opening this year for Donald Trump – the NAFTA-hating, border wall-building Republican populist – to peel off labor voters traditionally loyal to the...
by Ron DeLord | May 31, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The unemployed are being drafted in as full-time special constables in a move blasted as “policing on the cheap” by unions. Renfrewshire Council is offering 11-month, full-time “traineeships” which will see new recruits work alongside regular officers patrolling the...
by Ron DeLord | May 31, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
FRAMINGHAM — In a sign of the widening rift between the police department’s ranking officers and its top brass, members of the union representing superior officers signaled last month they have no confidence in Chief Ken Ferguson and his deputies to lead the...
by Ron DeLord | May 31, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
On Tuesday, an arbitrator ordered the city of Cleveland to pay overtime to 50 Cleveland police officers every week for the three weeks surrounding July’s Republican National Convention. The decision by arbitrator Alan Miles Ruben means 150 out of 850 patrol...
by Ron DeLord | May 31, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
“It’s as hard right now to be a cop maybe as it’s ever been,” San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr to The Chronicle Editorial Board Tuesday. At the time, Suhr was resisting calls demanding that he resign. Five local protesters had given up their hunger...
