EAST CLEVELAND, OH – Nowadays, firefighters roll out of the East Cleveland Fire Department on a wing and a prayer. East Cleveland firefighter Thomas Buth not mincing words when he says the Department is in “dire straits” with antiquated equipment falling apart and in desperate need of repair. Buth, who is also the president Local […]
MARION, IN – An assistant fire chief in Indiana has accepted a demotion after tying a rope into a noose in the presence of a black firefighter whose wife belongs to the family of a lynching victim. City Attorney Tom Hicks said Marion firefighter Rick Backs accepted a demotion to private in a meeting Tuesday […]
JACKSONVILLE, FL – The other shoe dropped on pension reform when a circuit court judge struck down an existing 30-year agreement between the city and the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund, sending shock waves through City Hall. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Beverly signed his order Tuesday, the day before City Council rejected the latest […]
PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP, NJ – Officer Shannon Sawyer has been with the police department of the Township of Pemberton, New Jersey since 2010 and has gotten high marks. Yet she’s not allowed to go to work right now because of her pregnancy. In a lawsuit filed this week, she says that in her work for the […]
Arizona’s governor on Monday vetoed legislation that would have kept secret for 60 days the identities of police officers involved in deadly shootings, a move that was both welcomed and heavily criticized by separate state police union leaders. Republican Governor Doug Ducey said the bill passed by state lawmakers last week was well-intentioned but fell […]
WORCESTER, MA – An eight-person jury in U.S. District Court on Monday cleared Uxbridge police Sgt. David Bergeron of all claims filed against him by former Uxbridge Police Sgt. Tara A. McCrohan in a discrimination case. But the jury found the police union, a co-defendant, responsible on her claims of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional […]
This month’s podcast features an overview of the anti-public safety collective bargaining legislation making its way in various state houses across the country and an important new genetic information discrimination case involving a firefighter. Cases discussed: Firefighter Wins Age Discrimination, GINA Claims, Lee v. City of Moraine Fire Department, 2015 WL 914440 (S.D. Ohio 2015) […]
