City leaders agreed to cut about $4.5 million from city departments and unions in an effort to close a budget gap for this fiscal year. The cuts approved Monday night included suspending a police department physical fitness program, using police helicopters less, having firefighters forego raises for the next 18 months, and increasing employees’ contribution to retirement funds. No full-time city staff members were laid off.
Tag Archive for Unions
Public Employee Unions, not the problem but part of the solution
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
Unions are not all-powerful engines of rapacity. County workers have been struggling with layoffs and furloughs in the county, courts and cities. Unions and their members are addressing state and local government issues responsibly.
Corporate personhood, fascism, and Libertarian-Republican double speak
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
With the Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday, CitiGroup, whose largest individual stockholder is a Saudi Arabian billionaire, can spend unlimited funds against any elected official who tries to regulate their activities. When they get in trouble again, legislators will simply give them another no-strings-attached taxpayer funded bailout, or else.
Supreme Court Rules in “Hillary, The Movie” case
by Chris Prevatt • • 2 Comments
By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said companies can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states.
AFL-CIO President Trumka Visits OC on Listening Tour
by Chris Prevatt • • 6 Comments
In what Orange County Labor Federation Executive Director Tefere Gebre says is the first ever vist by a sitting AFL-CIO President, Richard L. Trumka paid a visit to Orange County on Wednesday. He was here following through on his promise,…
Collective Bargaining a threat to airport security?
by Chris Prevatt • • 2 Comments
Now I know it is expected that the GOP would be opposed to unionization, but this is just a bit over the top. Republican senator Jim DeMint used the attempted attack on a airplane bound for Detroit as an excuse to voice opposition to unions. He warned, “The administration is intent on unionizing and submitting our airport security to union bosses’ collective bargaining.”
Michael Steele wants to know….
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
The same geniuses who sent me the signed photo of John McCain and Sarah Palin last fall are at it again; I received a 2009 Obama Agenda Survey in the mail from the Republican National Committee. The survey questions are…
