by Ron DeLord | Jul 19, 2016 | Canadian unions, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Maurice Sabourin was shocked, sad and angry when he learned five law enforcement officers were killed and seven wounded in a sniper attack in Dallas on Thursday night. “The level of violence our colleagues face in the United States is that much greater than what...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
In politics, there’s a maxim that says you keep your friends close but your enemies closer. But what if it becomes easier to simply turn a potential enemy into a friend? That was the most pressing among many questions the Fraternal Order of Police wrestled with at a...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
NASHVILLE – Metro police officer Anthony Venable was decommissioned after he made a Facebook post referencing the police-involved shooting in Falcon Heights, Minn., pending the results of an internal investigation. “Yeah. I would have done...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
This has been a tough week for American police. They’re learning the hard way that in today’s world, the cell phone is mightier than the gun. Someone Is Always Watching First, there was Alton Sterling. He made a small living trafficking in illegal goods –...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department will no longer report to the public whether individual deputies are deemed in or out of policy when they shoot suspects, after the union that represents rank and file objected. For months, such data had been available on the...
by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
MEMPHIS, TN – The new pension plan for Memphis City employees with fewer than seven and a half years on the job is now in place. Mayor Jim Strickland says, for younger employees, the new hybrid pension plan is better. But the police and firefighters association,...
