By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Enhancements at a San Diego park have caused an unusual rift between the Border Patrol union and city park officials. NBC San Diego reports that wooden bollards were placed around the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park in 2013 to prevent cars from driving into the park. But those roadblocks are now impeding…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Who should replace the leader at the embattled Secret Service? In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, the nation’s largest police union is recommending former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms and U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer, the USA Today reports. The recommendation follows the resignation of Julia Pierson, the agency’s first…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Border Patrol is beginning to test body cameras following complaints from activists, the Associated Press reports. The body cameras were purchased and will be tested at Border Patrol’s training academy. The news came during a meeting with activists who have urged the federal government to use the cameras. It remained…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Union leaders for the Border Patrol told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is understaffed and unable to handle the influx of immigrants as a crisis unfolds at the border with unaccompanied children, the Houston Chronicle reports. The agency is “drastically understaffed with morale plummeting to record lows,” Chris Crane, president of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Border Patrol’s ban on bringing cell phones or electronic devices to work following the leaked photos of an overcrowded processing center in Texas violates collectively-bargained guidelines, a union representative insists. The Blaze.com reports that the agency also is threatening employees who speak to the media. Prior to the release of photos…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ten union members in Philadelphia are accused of starting fires, sabotaging construction sites and threatening violence when companies used non-union laborers. The Blaze.com reports that federal agents arrested 10 members of Ironworkers Local 401 and charged them with participating in a “a conspiracy to commit criminal acts of extortion, arson, destruction of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal judge dismissed charges Tuesday against the former president of the National Border Patrol Council who was accused of funneling union money to finance pornography and trips to see his mistress, CBS8.com reports. Terence J. Bonner has long claimed that he was set up for political reasons. “This is about as…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The founder and treasurer of a union that represents private security guards assigned to protect federal buildings in the D.C. area, has been indicted on charges of stealing more than $100,000 from the pension fund and padding his salary to the tune of about $115,000 through unauthorized raises and…
