by rondelord | Dec 24, 2014 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
For outrageous government scam of the year, it’s hard to compete with the news of the supersized public-employee pensions in California. If you haven’t already heard: In 2013, an assistant fire chief in Southern California collected a $983,319 pension last year. A...
by rondelord | Dec 24, 2014 | Labor, Police, Politics, Uncategorized, Unions
NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Lynch was hollering. Standing outside a Brooklyn hospital after the bodies of two slain police officers were taken away, the head of the nation’s largest police union railed against Mayor Bill de Blasio for failing to support the rank-and-file,...
by rondelord | May 29, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
Indiana’s second-largest city is poised to end collective bargaining with all city employees except police officers and firefighters under a measure a union official said Wednesday is being pushed by “far-right politicians” to the detriment of hundreds of hard-working...