by rondelord | Dec 31, 2014 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
MIDDLETOWN, CT – Some members of the city council and pension board are asking questions about who is paying for what attorney, but they may have to wait for answers, despite those items’ inclusion on a committee meeting next week. At its meeting Monday, the...
by rondelord | Dec 31, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert, her team that negotiates labor contracts, city employees and their unions should be commended for addressing public pension program shortfalls. The city now has agreements in principle with all of its civilian unions, police and...
by rondelord | Dec 24, 2014 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
After the elections held earlier this month, Republicans will be in control of 23 state governments. That is likely to bode very poorly for labor unions, especially those operating in the public sector, which have become a target of conservative state lawmakers in the...
by rondelord | Dec 24, 2014 | Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Congress packed a lot of extraneous issues into the massive $1 trillion spending bill passed just before adjourning last week. Among them was a provision that allows pension benefits to be reduced for about 1.5 million retirees. That is bad news for those pensioners,...
by rondelord | Dec 24, 2014 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
For outrageous government scam of the year, it’s hard to compete with the news of the supersized public-employee pensions in California. If you haven’t already heard: In 2013, an assistant fire chief in Southern California collected a $983,319 pension last year. A...
by rondelord | Dec 24, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
And now, the plan is not only to decimate public-sector unions, but all unions—to deplete the money they can spend on politics. Christmas came early for the less than a quarter of 1 percent of Americans who donate to political campaigns or committees. In a rare...
