Posts tagged Fraternal Order of Police
UTAH, Opinion: Republicans Need to Learn Government Unions Can’t Be Trusted
March 3, 2025 // On Feb. 14, Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law I sponsored banning public-sector collective bargaining. This makes Utah the best state in the nation for protecting taxpayers and ensuring that government employees can negotiate their own employment terms. But this victory came only after fruitless attempts to work with government unions—efforts that exposed their pattern of saying one thing while doing another. In early 2024, I introduced a bill that would have required public-sector unions to hold regular recertification elections. As I argued at the time, unions representing teachers, firefighters and police should have to prove continuously that they represent a majority of workers. Taxpayers, too, have a stake: If a union doesn’t speak for most employees, why should the rest of the state be on the hook for its demands?
FLORIDA: St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office employees vote not to unionize
February 26, 2025 // St. Johns County Sheriff's Office deputies and corporals voted against unionizing and entering collective bargaining Friday. The vote ended a two-day voting period that began Thursday. A majority of the officers voted "no" to the proposal to join the Florida Fraternal Order of Police.
Trump, Elon Musk, and Philly unions are the wild cards in this year’s DA race
February 24, 2025 // But with risk comes reward. If Dugan prevails, it would be seen as a major win for the building trades and would represent the second time in three years that the group helped install its preferred candidate in a major citywide election. One union that has been silent so far is the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, which represents current and retired Philadelphia police officers.
Governor Moore’s Statement on Tentative Labor Agreements Reached Between the State of Maryland and State Government Major Employee Labor Unions
January 4, 2025 // Governor Wes Moore today released the following statement regarding the tentative labor agreements reached between the State of Maryland and State government’s seven major employee labor unions before the December 31, 2024 deadline
Allentown police union passes preliminary ‘no confidence’ vote in chief
August 13, 2024 // Allentown Police held a vote of "no confidence" in Chief Charles Roca. According to a source connected to City Hall, a preliminary vote was passed Tuesday. 69 News reached out to Fraternal Order of Police President Dave Benner, who confirmed a vote by the full union membership will take place electronically next week. The vote comes on the heels of a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two officers claiming corruption, misconduct and a culture of secrecy in the department.
Douglas County files lawsuit challenging legality of unionization in sheriff’s office
May 10, 2024 // Prior to the lawsuit, the county also argued that the FOP misled employees, leading them to believe the sheriff supported unionization efforts when he did not. “This trickery by the union caused many employees to sign their names in support of a union because they were falsely led to believe Sheriff Weekly supported it,” county Commissioner George Teal alleged in a video message. The sheriff’s office provided the News-Press the letter that Teal apparently referred to. “In the spirit of transparency and support, I met with Sheriff Weekly to share the survey results and discuss our proposed course of action. Sheriff Weekly expressed his continued support for us and the FOP,” said the letter, signed as “president” of the local FOP branch. Also before the lawsuit, the local police union accused Weekly and other Douglas County officials of engaging in unfair labor practices during the unionization efforts.
What’s Working: Why unionizing in Colorado, a modified-right-to-work state, sees limited success
March 13, 2024 // The Peace Act rules require three-quarters of eligible workers to participate in a second vote, if they already successfully voted in an NLRB election. Without it, the union has less bite since it doesn’t represent all eligible workers and cannot collect dues from those who don’t join. The NLRB’s vote needs just a simple majority. “This is where it gets kooky,” said Alejo R. González, political and community coordinator at Service Employees International Union Local 105 in Denver. “So you could literally win the vote 55 to zero and still lose because you didn’t get 75% of the people to vote. That 75% turnout is insane. It’s hard to get that many people to vote. … And a lot of companies won’t start bargaining until that happens.”
Wage increases and signing bonuses for city employees will take effect in new year
December 28, 2023 //
La Plata County Sheriff’s deputies take step toward unionization
October 31, 2023 // At least 50% support from voting parties will be required to form a collective bargaining unit. It remains unclear what specifics a hypothetical collective bargaining unit might seek to secure in an agreement, but the broad understanding is that the goal would largely be to secure the existing benefits and pay in place now. McSweeney said the goal is to formalize negotiations regarding benefits, wages and working conditions for Sheriff’s Office staff. “We also hope to improve communications and collaborations with county and Sheriff’s Office leadership in achieving common goals and improving service to this community,” he said. In a voicemail to the Herald, Sheriff Sean Smith said that the impacts of a collective bargaining unit are unknown, given how new the law is.
Despite arrest, corruption charge, Miami police union still all in on Diaz de la Portilla
October 19, 2023 // A month after Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was arrested on charges of trading a vote for hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations and gifts, it hasn’t cost him the support of Miami’s men and women in blue. In June, Miami’s Fraternal Order of Police announced it was putting its considerable political heft behind Diaz de la Portilla, a former state representative who was once chosen politician of the year by the union. And Monday — a month after Diaz de la Portilla’s Sept. 14 arrest — the union’s president made it clear that as far as he was concerned, nothing had changed. “There are two kinds of people that are always presumed guilty before innocent, cops and politicians,” said FOP President Felix Del Rosario.