Kansas City Police Department Captain Rich Lockhart confirms that, in March, officers will cast secret ballots to determine whether the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #99, will become the department's union representation.Lockhart says the FOP has been pushing the department to become unionized for years, but only recently got traction when a Missouri Supreme Court decision overturned a previous ruling that had barred Missouri schoolteachers, firefighters and police from unionizing.As a union,
There's more to the Associated Wholesale Grocers/Teamsters struggle than meets the eye. A former AWG manager says union officials made deep concessions to keep union workers in jobs but that the company would not budge.
