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...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he’s back at the bargaining table with organized labor in hopes of squeezing through the window the Illinois Supreme Court cracked open, even as it overturned his plan to save two of four city employee pension funds. “I don’t agree...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The president of the Portland police union is encouraging his officers not to attend meetings of the Citizen Review Committee, the panel that hears appeals of Police Bureau findings on complaints of alleged officer misconduct. His email to union members came in the...
by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
SAN ANTONIO – A week and a half after releasing the results of its “no confidence” vote in SAPD Chief William McManus, the San Antonio Police Officers Association released a 12-page After Action Report Tuesday detailing the reasons for that vote....
