by Ron DeLord | Mar 13, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Fifteen new graduates of the Philadelphia Police Academy were sworn in as officers on Friday, the smallest graduating class in recent memory, officials said. Although enrollment in the academy has been declining for years, Police Commissioner Richard Ross and police...
by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Council gave away the store As a story about the expected shortfall in the city’s pension fund pointed out, the fund paid $61 million in bonuses to three-quarters of its 30,000 retirees last year (“Investment losses hurt Phila.’s future,”...
by rondelord | Feb 12, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Sometime as early as April, Philadelphia’s beleaguered pension fund will begin sending out $62 million in bonus checks to retirees. It will do so despite being woefully underfunded – it has less than 48 percent of its $10 billion in obligations – and...
by rondelord | Nov 22, 2014 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
AFTER A REVIEW of more than two dozen cases of fired Philadelphia Police officers that showed the majority of them were reinstated, the Police Advisory Commission yesterday called on the city to examine the police arbitration process. In its inquiry into 26 cases of...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
TRENTON – Three New Jersey police unions are challenging Gov. Christie in court over his decision last month to cut New Jersey’s payment to its pension system, an action he said was needed to plug a $1 billion revenue shortfall for the fiscal year that...