by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Proponents of voter initiatives to curb public pensions in California said Monday they will no longer try to get a measure on the ballot this year. Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and former San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio said they will instead...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
SHORTLY after his exit from an abbreviated presidential run last fall, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin returned to a more successful undertaking: dismantling what remains of his state’s century-old progressive legacy. Last month, Mr. Walker signed a bill that allowed...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
As argument commenced at the Supreme Court last Monday, most eyes were on Justice Antonin Scalia. While still the Court’s conservative paterfamilias, union supporters were looking to Scalia as a potential swing vote in their favor in the case, Friedrichs v....
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
GEORGIA – No Whitfield County employee will see any changes to their benefits, but the county plans to provide a different set of benefits to employees hired after Feb. 1. “I want to make that clear,” said Board of Commissioners Chairman Mike Babb. “We have 500...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
How’s your 401(k) doing? If you have stocks in it, not well. How are government pensioners doing? Fabulously well, some of them. A database of pensions maintained by the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscal watchdog in Albany, shows firefighters retiring on up to...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 7, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
When Miami state Rep. Carlos Trujillo was interviewed on Spanish language radio station Actualidad 1020 he boldly proclaimed that Republicans will ask voters in 2018 to eliminate collective bargaining for state employees from the Florida Constitution. “It is going to...
