Some agree suing your cops and firefighters is a bad idea
Ron DeLord (in front on right) and Mike Helle, President of the San Antonio POA have had their plate full negotiating with a city that wants a war with its public safety personnel.
It was a terrible idea from the beginning and now people are coming to their senses. In San Antonio where the city council decided to sue the police and fire unions when they could not get firefighters and cops to agree to drastic cuts in their health care benefits, people are having second thoughts
San Antonio City Councilman Keith Toney told a local radio station that he now opposes the strategy and he thinks opposition to the unusual tactic is building on the Council.
“I am strongly opposed to the city of San Antonio taking the San Antonio Police Officers Association to court,” Toney said.
The city last week filed a lawsuit in an attempt to get what is called the ‘evergreen clause’ in the public safety contract, a clause city negotiators agreed to, thrown out as unconstitutional. In fact, one of the attorneys who signed the collective bargaining agreement on behalf of the city, an agreement which includes the ‘evergreen clause,’ is the same lawyer who is now suing to get it declared illegal.
The ‘evergreen clause’ says that if there are no further negotiations, the terms of the existing contract, including the current ‘zero premium’ health benefits the police and firefighters now enjoy, will remain in place for ten years.
Read more on this ongoing war occurring between the city of San Antonio and its police officers and firefighters.
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