Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A strike was authorized weeks ago, and the two sides aren't much closer to a settlement, the Kane County Chronicle reports.
A strike was averted in early February, but it looks more and more like the security guards at the Kane County Judicial Center will go to the picket line, the Kane County Chronicle reports. The court security officers presented the county last with a five-day notice to strike back in the early days of February. But the negotiators met and felt they were making enough progress to postpone a walkout, according to an article in the Daily Herald. The security personnel have been working without a contract since 2008. Last week, the Policemen’s Benevolent Labor Committee rejected the "last, best" offer of Kane County put forward by Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez and the negotiating team. There are 32 security officers in the union, and it is …
Thursday, May 31, 2012
The summons to be a juror came. I answered it, but though I got a tasty lunch, I never got to serve.
On Tuesday, I spent a morning fulfilling my civic duty, though I did not, sadly, get to fulfill a dream of actually sitting on a jury. I’d been notified, several weeks ago, that my (voter registration) number had come up, and I was being summoned to jury duty. I looked at the date and groaned. The timing was terrible, in terms of my job as communications person at Baker Memorial United Methodist Church in St. Charles, with a big conflict in terms of staffing. No matter. Turns out that when you fill out the online paperwork you can request a date change. You have to give a reason—you can’t just say, “I don’t feel like it,”—but I explained the situation and selected an alternative date on which I could serve. My request was granted. I was …
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
When it comes to silly procedures, the TSA's got nothing on Judge Spence's new security idea at the Kane County Judicial Center.
It drives me crazy! No! It’s not that the first thing new Kane County Chief Judge Bob Spence did was order stricter courthouse security measures. Give any red-blooded American male the title of “chief” and the first thing they’ll do is make their presence felt. That’s just the way it works. And while we’re at it, let’s dispense with the notion that this chief judge thing is some sort of big deal. Almost any justice who aspires to it gets their turn, and when you consider the role bestows the rare privileges of representing the courts at County Board meetings, playing peacemaker between feuding elected officials, working with all those 16th Circuit judicial egos, and having to deal with the likes of me, you start to wonder why anyone would …
Dan S
6:29 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
I sympathize with them. Strike on, I hope you make some headway. more ›