by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings and one other employee will be allowed to delay their retirements, thanks to a City Council vote Tuesday. The council unanimously approved an ordinance allowing senior members of Mayor Jim Strickland’s administration to...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions, United Kingdom
Police chiefs have warned that integrating railway policing into Police Scotland would be “massively complicated”. A Railway Policing Bill is to be introduced at Holyrood to push forward devolution of law enforcement powers. This would include the...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
In a potentially huge win for advocates of cutting government pensions, a San Francisco-based appeals court in August declared that public retirement plans were not “immutable” and could be reduced. The three-judge panel said the law merely requires government to...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Michael Ryan spent 15 years at Baltimore’s Civilian Review Board as an investigator charged with looking into resident complaints of misconduct against police officers. Only Ryan, himself a former city cop, stopped leaving the office about five years ago. Ryan,...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
MEDFORD, Mass. —The president of a Medford police union is apologizing after posting a picture of someone dressed as Hillary Clinton in an orange jump suit. Harold MacGilvary said it was “poor judgment” when he posed for the picture, which was shared on...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
It’s been clear for years that Springfield residents have been suffering under the city’s deepening pension crisis. Two years ago, the city was already spending nearly every penny of its general fund property taxes on pension costs, leaving nothing for other core...
