by Ron DeLord | Feb 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Meet-and-confer talks have begun between city administrators and the Fort Worth Police Officers Association in the hopes that a new contract can be reached by June, four months before the current one expires and in time for the city’s budget process. Salaries,...
by rondelord | Apr 9, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
FORT WORTH – Pension reductions approved by the Fort Worth City Council for its police officers and general employees will stand, after a federal judge dismissed a police-backed lawsuit Tuesday. Federal Judge Terry Means of the Northern District of Texas found...
by rondelord | Mar 9, 2015 | Police, Politics
Taser International, the stun-gun maker emerging as a leading supplier of body cameras for police, has cultivated financial ties to police chiefs whose departments have bought the recording devices, raising a host of conflict-of-interest questions. A review of records...
by rondelord | Feb 27, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Like most in law enforcement, Fort Worth police officer Jody Boday knew that it was a matter of when — not if — she would get injured on the job. But when she started with the Fort Worth Police Department as a rookie in 2005, the job was worth the risk. “When I first...
by rondelord | Jun 18, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Memorial, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Despite unilaterally cutting pension benefits for its employees, the city of Fort Worth’s efforts to curb its billion-dollar deficit aren’t paying off yet. Fort Worth pension’s unfunded liability — or the amount the city can’t afford to pay off — increased from $1.07...