by Ron DeLord | Sep 26, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto told Target 11 on Tuesday that he understands the Fraternal Order of Police union has some issues with the chief, but said a call for a “No Confidence” vote isn’t the way to go about fixing things. When asked about the...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 26, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
As citizens of Charlotte took to the streets and NFL football players took to their knees, a different, quieter battle of police reform has been taking place in Seattle. Late Thursday evening, in a windowless conference room on the third floor of City Hall, in what...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 26, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The city of San Bernardino went bankrupt for a number of reasons: an inefficient system of government, an outdated commitment to providing most services with city employees, an overall lack of control over spending. The effects of the Great Recession certainly only...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 26, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Insolvency: America’s states, counties, cities and municipalities are in deep trouble, owing literally trillions in public employee pensions that they can’t pay off. Nowhere is that more apparent than in California, the nation’s poster boy for fiscal...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 26, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The four unions representing Akron employees are “shocked and dismayed” at a city proposal to have retirees start paying toward their supplemental health insurance and end that benefit for all future workers. The unions also are threatening to sue if the city pursues...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 26, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
A month after Jacksonville voters passed a sales-tax extension to cover $2.85 billion in pension costs, city-employee unions are negotiating the terms of closing pension plans to new members. Mayor Lenny Curry said his administration is putting forward a solution he...
