by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
A photo that appears to show Costa Mesa’s police and fire chief endorsing Mayor Steve Mensinger’s reelection bid for council prompted the city to issue a statement over the weekend reiterating its stance of election impartiality. A resident who saw the photo online of...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Pittsburgh police officers don’t have to live in the city to keep residents safe and state law gives them a right to move out, an attorney for the police union argued Tuesday. An attorney for the city countered that voters in 2013 overwhelmingly approved an...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
More than $3.5 million in the approximately $6.5 million the city will spend for health insurance is spent on retirees. October 11, Sam Teresi, Jamestown mayor, released his 2017 executive budget that contains an $878,736 deficit. Teresi said the ”No. 1” issue city...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings and one other employee will be allowed to delay their retirements, thanks to a City Council vote Tuesday. The council unanimously approved an ordinance allowing senior members of Mayor Jim Strickland’s administration to...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions, United Kingdom
Police chiefs have warned that integrating railway policing into Police Scotland would be “massively complicated”. A Railway Policing Bill is to be introduced at Holyrood to push forward devolution of law enforcement powers. This would include the...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Michael Ryan spent 15 years at Baltimore’s Civilian Review Board as an investigator charged with looking into resident complaints of misconduct against police officers. Only Ryan, himself a former city cop, stopped leaving the office about five years ago. Ryan,...
