Lebanon Police $30,000 Signing Bonus Raises Eyebrows
November 28, 2023
LEBANON — In a sign of the challenge police departments face in filling their ranks, the city’s police department has increased its signing bonus to
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Members of the union that represents SEPTA police officers voted to authorize their leadership to call a strike against the transit agency after six months of negotiations with no progress toward a new contract.
The vote on Friday was nearly unanimous, said Omari Bervine, a patrol officer who is president of the 175-member Fraternal Order of Transit Police, Lodge 109. Union officials called in a mediator last month.
“We have met with multiple times with the mediator but this has not had any effect on the state of our talks thus far,” Bervine said. “We seem to be at an impasse.”
LEBANON — In a sign of the challenge police departments face in filling their ranks, the city’s police department has increased its signing bonus to
Ron Cato spent 30 years of his life marching into burning buildings, rescuing people from smoldering rubble and speeding down streets in a fire engine,
The Columbia River Fire & Rescue District and the local firefighters union signed a 2022-2025 contract but never had “a meeting of the minds” on substantial salary