by Ron DeLord | Jan 10, 2017 | Australian unions, Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions, United Kingdom
For the past 40 years, the majority of law enforcement personnel could depend on regular salary increases, better health care and pension benefits while reaping the advantages of belonging to a police union that was learning how to gain and use political power....
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 | Jan 24, 2016 | Police, Politics, Unions, United Kingdom
As a police officer in England, Michael Matthews doesn’t carry a gun — but while on a recent ride-along with Detroit cops, he says there were times he wished he was packing. Detroit’s rampant violence, “Third World poverty,” and the availability of firearms aren’t as...
by Ron DeLord | Nov 28, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions, United Kingdom
LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Britain’s police forces, facing millions of pounds of budget cuts, could save up to 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) a year by buying services like finance and IT from the private sector, outsourcing firm G4S said on Thursday....
by Ron DeLord | Nov 28, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions, United Kingdom
With cutbacks clearly taking their toll on British policing, officers watched with empathy and concern as the drama unfolded and noted how the French authorities were able to rapidly pour formidable police resources in the form of hundreds of heavily armed police...
by Ron DeLord | Oct 13, 2015 | Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions, United Kingdom
Widows of police officers are to visit Downing Street to campaign against pension rules they say force some of them into “a life of solitude”. Under current rules in England and Wales, the pensions of thousands of police officers would be cancelled if they died and...
