by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Over the next two weeks, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s administration will analyze the costs of relaxing employee residency requirements and creating a private health care exchange in hopes of recruiting and retaining police officers and firefighters. Those...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Politics, Unions
The Kansas City Council on Thursday voted in favor of a new wage deal through April 30, 2020, with the local firefighters union. The council majority said the deal was a good compromise to resolve a months-long impasse with Local 42 of the International Association of...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
It’s said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. But unless the Republican-led Congress steps up, the fetid world of public employee pension financing may remain a danger to taxpayers and government budgets. As I’ve discussed several times over the past week, the...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is allowing the Republican 2015-2016 budget to become law without his signature, according to a news release issued by the governor’s office. Jeffrey Sheridan, spokesman for the governor’s office, said the budget “does nothing to address...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Chicago’s plan to ease its $20 billion public-worker pension deficit was ruled illegal by the Illinois Supreme Court, a decision that the city warned may lead to the funds’ running out of money and worsen its financial strains. The Chicago plan, passed in 2014,...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
City officials along with representatives of the police and fire unions stood together Tuesday to urge voters to pass all parts of the Vision Tulsa package. Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 93 President Clay Ballenger said adding police officers via the public-safety...
