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Offline thundley4

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Scranton police file grievance after chief makes off-duty arrest
« on: April 20, 2011, 05:32:20 PM »
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The Scranton police union has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the city for an off-duty drug arrest made by Police Chief Dan Duffy in March.

The complaint, which was filed with the state Labor Relations Board on April 14, takes issue with the chief arresting a man who was allegedly in possession of marijuana because the chief is not a member of the collective bargaining unit and was "off duty" when the March 20 arrest was made.

"I think it's absurd. I'm not going to turn my head on crime that takes place," Chief Duffy said. "I took the same oath (as a police officer) that everyone else took.

"On my day off and I'm driving around as the police chief, and that's wrong?" he asked.

The complaint states that "the work of apprehending and arresting individuals has been the sole and exclusive province of members of the bargaining unit," and that the city did not inform or negotiate with the union that the chief would be "performing bargaining unit work."

Because of this, the union says the city violated the state Labor Relations Act and the Policemen and Firemen Collective Bargaining Act.
  WTF?

I was going to put this in the general, then thought better.  Not wanting a police chief to make an arrest can only be mind numbing stupidity.
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Re: Scranton police file grievance after chief makes off-duty arrest
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 05:45:15 PM »
Wow. No support for the union at all so far in the comments.

If they keep this up, they might grievance their way right out of any influence.
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Re: Scranton police file grievance after chief makes off-duty arrest
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 05:49:05 PM »
Good move unions. Put yourselves out there for more Americans to see what POS's you really are.
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Re: Scranton police file grievance after chief makes off-duty arrest
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 09:27:16 AM »
Same logic would apply to him intervening in a rape, murder, or robbery off-duty, which makes no sense.  I'd be tempted to tunnel down and see if there was some connection between the guy that was busted, there is a smell of something even more rotten than normal union stupidity about this.
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Re: Scranton police file grievance after chief makes off-duty arrest
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 10:26:26 AM »
Yeah, I'm sure the Chief is deliberately trying to take food out of the mouths of the rank and file union officer's kids mouths by stealing work away from them  :whatever: :whatever: :whatever:
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Re: Scranton police file grievance after chief makes off-duty arrest
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2011, 10:36:55 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on April 21, 2011, 09:27:16 AM
I'd be tempted to tunnel down and see if there was some connection between the guy that was busted, there is a smell of something even more rotten than normal union stupidity about this.

Yup.  Feels like that to me, too.
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