by Ron DeLord | Feb 26, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House has given initial approval to a bill dealing with donations to unions from public employees. Backers call the legislation, “paycheck protection.” Opponents call it “paycheck deception.” The bill would bar the taking of...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
It was five years ago today that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker “dropped the bomb,” in his words, introducing legislation to strip public employee unions of their right to collective bargaining. It was a move that split Wisconsin and led to weeks of protests. How has it...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation that would expand the collective bargaining rights of Transportation Security Administration employees, allowing TSA workers to negotiate over the same issues that most unionized feds already do. The 2016 Rights for...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
SAN DIEGO — A state appeals court ruled this week that four San Diego city employee unions aren’t entitled to $1.7 million in attorney’s fees from a 2010 lawsuit over the pension contributions of city workers. The pension litigation was settled in 2013, with the city...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Should the Supreme Court rule for the plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association—as, given what transpired in oral arguments, seems eminently likely—the right-wing backlash against organized labor of the last several years, from the stripping of...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Council gave away the store As a story about the expected shortfall in the city’s pension fund pointed out, the fund paid $61 million in bonuses to three-quarters of its 30,000 retirees last year (“Investment losses hurt Phila.’s future,”...
