TOLEDO, OHIO -- Toledo's police union has requested, and been denied, a temporary restraining order in an attempt to stop Toledo City Council's decision to approve concessions from the safety workers.
The Toledo Police Patrolman's Association filed the request for a temporary restraining order against the exigent circumstances in Lucas County Common Pleas Court Wednesday. By 4:00 p.m., that injunction had been denied.
On Tuesday, Council approved Toledo Mayor Mike Bell's request to declare exigent circumstances, empowering the city's administration to make changes to union contracts and force concessions from union members. The TPPA is one of those unions.
The city hopes the give backs will help close the gap faced in a $48 million budget shortfall.
Declaring exigent circumstances allows the city to extract nearly $2.7 million from TPPA members. Just last week, the TPPA rejected a proposal, tentatively agreed upon by the union and the city, that called for pension pick-ups and deferral of overtime. Those concessions were to save 125 officers from the chopping block. Union president, Dan Wagner, expressed the disappointment he and his membership feel with Tuesday's decision. "With the mayor coming in and saying we are not going to sit down and negotiate...they no longer have trust in him," Wagner said.
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