by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Duval County voters will vote this year on a half-cent sales tax for paying down the city’s massive pension debt — an election that will certainly happen after Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation Friday giving residents that choice at the ballot box. Whether the...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Over the next two weeks, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s administration will analyze the costs of relaxing employee residency requirements and creating a private health care exchange in hopes of recruiting and retaining police officers and firefighters. Those...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
It’s said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. But unless the Republican-led Congress steps up, the fetid world of public employee pension financing may remain a danger to taxpayers and government budgets. As I’ve discussed several times over the past week, the...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Chicago’s plan to ease its $20 billion public-worker pension deficit was ruled illegal by the Illinois Supreme Court, a decision that the city warned may lead to the funds’ running out of money and worsen its financial strains. The Chicago plan, passed in 2014,...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
City officials along with representatives of the police and fire unions stood together Tuesday to urge voters to pass all parts of the Vision Tulsa package. Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 93 President Clay Ballenger said adding police officers via the public-safety...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Officials representing several public employee and labor unions in New Orleans came out Wednesday in support of a property tax hike for public safety, as well as a bond measure to fund roads, firetrucks and public buildings. Both the bond issue and the millage, which...
