by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
This country has made a lot of terrible financial blunders. Easily among the top ten would be the decision to allow public employees to form unions and engage in collective bargaining. Only a little more than 50 years old, that mistake has done prodigious harm to us...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
SACRAMENTO — The state’s public-employee unions are among the most powerful interest groups in the Capitol, yet an effort to sneak some language into a bill during the last week of the legislative session shows the degree to which even these lobbies fear a coming...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
At L.A. City Hall, it was the most hotly debated policy initiative of 2012: a new law aimed at reining in retirement benefits for thousands of future public employees. Alarmed by steadily growing pension costs, the City Council voted to scale back the size of pensions...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Concerned about their members’ safety following a deadly two-week stretch, the Fraternal Order of Police and National Association of Police Organizations are calling on Congress and the Obama administration to act. The recent spate of violence against law enforcement...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
LAREDO, TEXAS (KGNS) – Police and other city staff are reacting after a proposal to start a mandatory retirement, by age or years in service, for city police officers. A couple hours ago, council member Charlie San Miguel brought up his idea, he says it will...
by Ron DeLord | Sep 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Last week’s wild gyrations in global financial markets almost certainly exposed the vulnerability of U.S. state and local authority public pension funds which have piled into riskier assets in recent years, according to actuaries and other pension experts. Based...
