by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee has been suspended without pay over a Facebook post regarding a Black Lives Matter protest that led to the shutdown of Interstate 40. Shelby County sheriff’s spokesman Earle Farrell told The Commercial...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
A longtime St. Louis civil rights group and big labor are working to build closer ties in an effort the two groups say is part of a new focus that will continue beyond election season. AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre was in St. Louis Thursday to meet...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Ron Smith, president of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, is resigning amid heavy criticism over a Facebook post about the death of five police officers in Dallas last week. The resignation is effective July 31, and union Vice President Kevin Stuckey will fulfill...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The city announced Tuesday evening that they had come to an agreement with a police union, bringing Boston one step closer to implementing a body camera pilot program. This comes after renewed calls by local activists in recent days following the high-profile police...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Labor, Politics, Unions
Recordings from law enforcement body and dashboard cameras will not be considered public records in North Carolina under a law signed Monday by Gov. Pat McCrory. Civil libertarians and social justice activists said the law will make it more difficult to hold officers...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 23, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
New Jersey’s fiscal and economic future depends on how we answer a simple question: Do we have the courage to reform a broken pension system that’s driving us towards insolvency? There are some hopeful signs that the answer is “yes,” but if the state legislature gets...
