by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
In recent weeks, Gov. Bruce Rauner of Illinois has traveled the state promoting his proposal for more than $2 billion in cuts to pensions for public employees. All public employees, that is, except police officers and firefighters. “Those who put their lives on the...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
The Tucson City Council has chosen a three-year phase-in plan to pay off its growing public safety pension costs. Tuesday’s decision to cover an $18 million pension obligation in three annual installments of between $6 million and $7 million, rather than in one year,...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
More than 100 police officers have left the San Diego Police Department since July 1, at least 19 for other law enforcement agencies that offer higher pay, according to a report presented Wednesday to a City Council committee. The rate of losing about a dozen officers...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Last July more than half of Memphis’ police officers took sick days off to protest the reductions in the city’s contributions to their pension plan and increases in their contributions to the city’s health benefits plan. The national media was sympathetic with cases...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Baltimore County government ended a 70-year relationship with a consulting firm that gave advice on the county’s pension fund and sued the company, alleging it’s responsible for a multi-million dollar judgment against the county. The county is on the hook...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A spokesman for San Jose’s police union said Friday that labor and city officials may be closing in on a deal to roll back pension reform Measure B in exchange for cost savings and a resolution to a bitter, years-long legal and political conflict....
