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...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Two former town officials are urging the Town Council to act decisively to strengthen retirement benefits for the town’s non-union public safety workers. They want to reverse a worrisome trend toward high employee turnover in the police and fire-rescue departments....
by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
NEW ORLEANS – Rejecting the wishes of the mayor, police and fire leaders and the departments’ unions, Orleans Parish voters on Saturday rejected a property tax increase to boost police and fire funding in New Orleans. With 95 percent of the precincts...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The Big Short is clearly a hit. Nominated for (and winning) a host of major awards, the film has reportedly clocked $131 million worldwide on a $28 million production budget. That should give screenwriters the incentive to follow up with the true-to-life sequel. Call...
