by rondelord | Dec 24, 2014 | Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
TOWSON, Md. – Maryland’s second highest court has given Baltimore County’s police union another victory over the local government in a seven-year legal battle over health insurance rates for a select group of retired officers. On Dec. 19, the Maryland Court of...
by rondelord | Dec 21, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — San Jose City Manager Ed Shikada, acknowledging the City Council wanted new management, Wednesday announced his resignation as of Jan. 1, the day Mayor-elect Sam Liccardo takes office, according the city officials. Shikada, who become city manager...
by rondelord | Dec 17, 2014 | Labor, Pensions, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
CHICAGO (AP) – Current and retired city workers and their labor unions have filed a lawsuit arguing a law overhauling Chicago’s pension systems is unconstitutional. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court also asks a judge to stop the law from taking...
by rondelord | Dec 17, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
SAN JOSE — As promised, incoming Mayor Sam Liccardo has made his first order of business to try and solve what continues to be the biggest issue at City Hall: the feud with rank-and-file cops. Liccardo on Wednesday said the city will seek to return to the...
by rondelord | Dec 17, 2014 | Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Public employees filed the class action case in 2010, arguing that an element of the reform was unconstitutional because it essentially took their property. A provision of the revised law requires retirees who later return to work to pay into the retirement system,...
by rondelord | Dec 17, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Brian West Easley, a partner in the labor and employment practice in the Chicago office of Cleveland-based law firm Jones Day, led a team of five other attorneys charged with managing Detroit’s labor relations during the city’s bankruptcy. He was...
