We just have to make sure when we come to meetings like this, we both come with a good faith effort. To ask our input a week before is not an appropriate amount of time to do that.
He puts out a general order saying it's OK, and when things heat up, instead of standing behind his people, he backs away and abandons them to protect himself.
It's a last-ditch effort to divide us from their employees before the election on May 16. If we were trespassing, we'd be moved. If we were threatening people, we'd be arrested.
This is a good example of why officers need some due process. They need a grievance and arbitration procedure, so if they don't think the action taken by the department is warranted they have some recourse.
We're talking days not weeks to address these problems. We're going to be asking parents to prepare for alternative transportation so these drivers can be heard.
The FOP is a fine fraternal organization, but there's only one union on the ballot, and that's the Teamsters.
In our view, that's retaliation for what he said.
Everyone was on board except for First Student. We agreed to their demands, and they lied to us.
There has to be a regular performance audit to do a comprehensive analysis to determine how the funds are performing. We can't come to the bargaining table with information that's six years old.
