by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
COSTA MESA – The city’s police union has worked 578 days without a permanent contract in place, but that might soon change after the Costa Mesa Police Association announced Wednesday that it had reached a tentative agreement with the city. The new contract proposal...
by rondelord | Jun 23, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
An independent investigator will no longer review complaints about Orange County’s biggest law enforcement agency under a tentative vote by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The unanimous straw vote to eliminate $450,000 in annual funding for the Office of...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
They’re the little extras tacked on to “pensionable pay” – from mainstays like chunks of unused leave time to such oddities as the “motorcycle bonus” and “confined space pay.” Add them up, and some public workers in Orange County are boosting their “final average...
by rondelord | Dec 17, 2014 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Hundreds of Orange County deputies and investigators will grade their bosses at the Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Offices, then publicly share those opinions in the union’s monthly newsletter. The process, which union leaders say is intended to be civil...
by rondelord | Apr 25, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
CALIFORNIA – Negotiators representing more than 1,800 Orange County Sheriff’s deputies have apparently reached an impasse in salary talks with county supervisors as the two sides have been unable to come to terms on employee pension contributions and pay...