by rondelord | May 1, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
FLORIDA – The House approved its version of legislation closing the Florida Retirement System to elected officials and Senior Management employees Friday, voting along party lines for a package that includes less controversial revisions in the administration of...
by rondelord | May 1, 2014 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Phoenix voters will decide the fate of the city’s ailing employee-pension system this fall after a group of political activists succeeded Friday in getting a reform initiative certified to the ballot. Citizens for Pension Reform Committee, a group of...
by rondelord | May 1, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
The fight over pay and benefits for Phoenix’s workforce of nearly 14,000 civil servants is expected to hit a boiling point this week, with dozens of union members planning to fill a City Council meeting on Wednesday to protest proposed cuts. Union leaders say...
by rondelord | May 1, 2014 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
THE ECONOMICS of public-sector pension reform are straightforward enough. Funds that states and municipalities must devote to employees’ retirement benefits are funds that they cannot spend on parks, libraries, transportation, public safety and other services. This...
by rondelord | May 1, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Detroit’s 100,000 public employees will get a much better pension deal after negotiators for Detroit’s two pension funds and the Retired Detroit Police and Fire Fighters Association bargained hard for days and nights over the city’s proposed...
by rondelord | Apr 25, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
WASHINGTON — It’s back. For years, because of structural changes in the health care delivery system and the deep economic downturn, the health care “cost curve” — as economists and policy makers call it — had bent. Health spending was growing no faster than spending...
