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| Questions Remain as Pension Plan Heads to Jacksonville's City Council
Jacksonville, FL — Will the savings stack up, and how?
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| Police Labor Contract Under Way
Marion, IN — Attorneys for the city of Marion and the police union are in the process of drafting a labor contract after union members ratified an agreement a couple weeks ago.
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| CalPERS Warns Retirees: Premiums for Long–Term Care to Skyrocket
CALIFORNIA— The California Public Employees Retirement System, also known as CalPERS, has put roughly 60,000 retirees on notice that they face a steep increase in premiums for long–term care insurance.
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| Illinois Senate OKs union–backed pension deal
ILLINOIS — A union–backed pension bill sailed out of the Illinois Senate Thursday, leaving two different reform plans before lawmakers and none on the governor's desk.
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| Fallin vetoes pension bill
OKLAHOMA — Gov. Mary Fallin, still miffed that legislators this year didn't take up her proposal to consolidate the staff, boards and offices of several pension plans into one, vetoed a bill Friday that would have given some state employees the chance to choose between two retirement plans.
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| Tooele County approves changes to retirement benefits
TOOELE COUNTY, UT — With cash flow evaporating in this sprawling county's budget, Tooele County commissioners voted Tuesday to change the structure of retiree medical benefits.
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| Salina City Police Department staying put
SALINA, UT — Salina City Police Department is staying they way it is. The Salina City Council decided to take a plan to potentially merge its police force with the Sevier County Sheriff's Office off the table during a May 8 council meeting.
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| Colorado Springs police, firefighters likely to get pay raises
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — Colorado Springs Police Chief Pete Carey was in talks last week to hire a new recruit, fresh out of the police academy, when the recruit told him he was going to another city.
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| Police union formation likely to involve lawyers
OZARK, MO — The Ozark Board of Aldermen voted down a bill proposing a process by which it could meet with and negotiate with an organized group representing employees of the Ozark Police Department. After the vote, both city staffers and police officers discussed the imminent hiring of attorneys.
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| Aldermen Send Police Unions Back to Negotiating Table
NASHUA, NH — Nashua's Board of Aldermen rejected three of four police union contract proposals presented Tuesday night, with several aldermen citing a lack of equity in the negotiated terms, compared with other settled contracts.
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