Again, from the comments:
- SCC, I know a few higher ranking gents in the FOP. Those gentlemen mentioned a few other doozies to me recently. The city wants to take away 3 holidays, lower the amount of furlough days, lower the amount of BFD's, Lower PD's, Eliminate bidding for any officer with less than 10 years on the job. I know there were more things coming from city hall but I can't remember all of them.
The FOP is already preparing for arbitration as there will be no settled contract.
SCC, you already said this but it needs to be stressed. The City is going after us with both barrels. The city is going to bad mouth us in the press everyday until June 30th 2012 rolls around. The City is not going to let the economic crisis go to waste. They are going to try and take anything and everything earned or won by the FOP over the last 30 years.
Again, we need FOP to be vocal and out in front of these issues. Hammer the city's faulty accounting, emphasize we pay 9% of our salaries into our own pensions, let everyone know just exactly how short we are. Time's a wasting!
UPDATE: To the Reading Challenged dumbass:
UPDATE: To the Reading Challenged dumbass:
- We never claimed these were city proposals. We never claimed these were written in stone. The commentator alleges these are being bandied about from people he talks to, not us. We are a reader-driven site dealing in information, some good, some far-fetched, some deliberate provocations. We filter out what we can, debunk what we're able and attempt to get information on stuff beyond the scope of our knowledge. Stop being an asshat if you can help it. So far, it doesn't look like you can, but we always hold out hope for a cure.