- Detroit: pension trustees’ sins come home to roost [Steve Malanga, City Journal; Aaron Renn/Urbanophile; Steven Greenhut (CALPERS next?)] Role of binding arbitration [Malanga, IBD]
- Since declaring bankruptcy San Bernardino has given police $2 million in raises [Scott Shackford] Twenty-eight members of Santa Monica police force made more than $200K last year [Ira Stoll, Future of Capitalism] “Do other big city balance sheets resemble Detroit’s?” [Public Sector Inc.]
- Phoenix firefighters sue insurance company over workers’ comp denials [ABC 15]
- Under new California law, county worker who stole $360,000 may forfeit pension [San Diego Union-Tribune]
- “Crime Rate in Camden, NJ Going Down After Unionized Police Force Sacked” [Ed Krayewski, Reason (“On any given day, 30 percent of the force was absent because of the liberal sick policies.”)]
- Trying to drop one’s membership in the Michigan Education Association can be a long-drawn business [Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner]
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Lawrence Harmon, Boston Globe; Police unions fight to protect even worst of bad apples [Greenhut, City Journal on California and use of “Brady lists”]
Filed under: Boston, California, Detroit, labor unions, Michigan, New Jersey, Phoenix, police unions
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The state of California uses (or used to use) a similar trick to that employed by some unions. If you registered a motor vehicle for one year, they would automatically reregister for the next year and and demand that you pay the fee (which was in the hundreds of dollars). You could not avoid paying the fee once they had done this, even if you did not wish to register the vehicle that year. You could not cancel the registration and get a pro-rated refund. In order to deregister a vehicle, you had to notify them in writing prior to the expiration of the registration for the current year.