by Ron DeLord | Apr 10, 2016 | Canadian unions, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
TORONTO — The recent furor over comments by Toronto’s outgoing deputy chief of police about cutting officers to save money focused the spotlight anew on policing costs that keep rising even as Canada’s crime rate plunges and its economy sputters. While...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 24, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Sometime during the next few months, the US Supreme Court will issue a decision that could profoundly weaken public employee unions across the country. By all accounts, the justices — in the oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association —...
by rondelord | Jun 23, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
In September of 1919, nine decades before Wisconsin Governor Scott Walkerprevailed in his contentious battle against public sector unions and emerged a conservative hero, a little-known Massachusetts governor named Calvin Coolidge faced a major labor dispute. More...
by rondelord | May 4, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
There is something rotten in the state of South Carolina. Officer Michael Slager abrogated his duty to uphold the peace by shooting and killing Walter Scott, an unarmed black man whose only infraction was running away when pulled over for a broken taillight. On top of...
by rondelord | Jan 10, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
WASHINGTON — The deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and other African-American men who have died at the hands of law enforcement in recent months were on the minds of the black lawmakers who gathered Tuesday morning in the U.S. Capitol for the start of the new...