by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Unfunded public pensions threaten the fiscal solvency of states and localities across the country. And California is not immune. Back in 2012, San Diego voters recognized the threat and overwhelmingly supported Proposition B, a set of pension reforms that is helping...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
A bill that would make all public employees’ union negotiations open to the public generated support along with a few doubts at its first hearing Tuesday. Supporters say House Bill 2325, called the Public Employee Bargaining Transparency Act, would increase openness....
by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
California has rightly received a good deal of attention for the unfunded pension liabilities – estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars – that current and future taxpayers will have to pay, but far less attention has been paid to its retiree health care...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Sometime during the next few months, the US Supreme Court will issue a decision that could profoundly weaken public employee unions across the country. By all accounts, the justices — in the oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association —...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
As union members gathered in the nation’s capital over the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend, some of the country’s top labor leaders faced tough questions about how the movement can reconcile its support for racial justice with its embrace of police unions. Over...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The face of the case that could cripple public sector unions, argued earlier this week at the Supreme Court, is a blonde, curly-haired elementary school teacher from Orange County. Rebecca Friedrichs told (and retold) a story of battling teachers unions for the best...
