by Ron DeLord | May 31, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Politics, Unions
May 22–Eleven firefighters received pension payments exceeding $500,000 last year, and all of them did so by taking part in a little-known loophole in one of San Diego’s most controversial employee benefit programs. The Deferred Retirement Option Plan, or...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
March 12–Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright announced Friday that his administration reached a key settlement with the city’s police and firefighter unions to finally pay them millions in back pay overdue to them from a landmark arbitration court ruling and...