by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Right around 2008, as the United States housing market was collapsing in on itself, something unusual happened in the Seattle Police Department: the year-to-year increases of SPD’s overtime budget started turning south, declining every year until 2012. Meanwhile,...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Residents on the Northside say the city is not doing enough when it comes to fixing homelessness and crime. Mayor Lenny Curry made his pitch Monday to a crowd of hundreds and said that fixing the $3 billion pension problem is what’s needed to...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Testimony in a lawsuit by a group of city retirees challenging the 2013 cuts the city made in police and fire retirement benefits entered its second week Monday, as a dozen former police and firefighters described how the benefit reductions affected...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Australian unions, Collective Bargaining, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Seventeen WA police officers were taken off frontline duties after they could not pass a basic fitness test. The officers were given two chances within three months to complete the untimed obstacle course and after failing were forced to see a doctor before their...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
ALBANY — The job of an internal affairs investigator in New York State’s corrections department can be thankless work. So it was a rare occasion last month when officials summoned all 150 members of the unit to the department’s training academy here for a pep talk....
by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
California has some of the strictest laws in the U.S. against publicly releasing information about officer discipline. State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) says recent high-profile clashes between police departments and the communities they serve show that now is...
