by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
This could be the start of something big. In fact, it has to be. Last week, Julie Jones, secretary of the state’s Department of Corrections, announced an initiative to recruit 4,000 corrections officers by July 2017. This move is crucial to plugging the staffing gaps...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
ATLANTIC CITY — Gov. Chris Christie’s press conference that bashed Mayor Don Guardian and other city officials also brought them good news — a countywide police force is off the table, Guardian said. The next challenge for police and firefighters in the city will be...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Canadian unions, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
March 22 was a day of coincidences in Toronto: a tumultuous chapter in the history of city politics ended with the death of former mayor Rob Ford; in Ottawa, the Trudeau government introduced its first “growth” budget; and by chance, or choice,...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The city’s largest police union is taking its feud with Mayor de Blasio to the airwaves. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has launched a new radio ad campaign accusing the mayor of contributing to income inequality by refusing to raise wages for cops and for not...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
In December, the nearly six-year legal saga of Portland Police officer Ronald Frashour, who fatally shot a mentally ill man named Aaron Campbell in the back, concluded when the Oregon Court of Appeals ordered the city to put him back to work. For lawyers on the case,...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
California can no longer afford the failed experiment of mass incarceration. When the voters approved measures like Proposition 36, which amended “three strikes” laws, and Prop. 47, which reduced penalties for petty theft and drug crimes, they were sending a clear...
