Archive for January, 2009

By: Ed Jacques

As promised by President Jim Tignanelli at the POAM Annual Convention in Grand Rapids in June 2007, Arenac County Sheriff and POAM’s recipient of its “HORSES ASS” award has lost his bid to be re-elected as Sheriff. Ronald Bouldin was defeated in the August primary by a resounding margin.

Former Arenac County Sheriff Jim Mosiscki won back the job in the November election with the support of POAM and others. Former Sheriff Bouldin was quick to blame POAM Vice President and Arenac County DSA Business Agent Dan Kuhn and an underground newspaper called the “Town Crier” for his loss. The truth of the matter is, that Bouldin only has himself to blame. A website called www.sheriffbouldinmustgo.com exposed many of the sheriff’s shortcomings which included but were not limited to: sexual harassment lawsuits, retaliation against Union Officers, ridiculous policies and procedures and terrible department morale.

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By: Abigail Crouse

The new FMLA regulations become effective on January 16, 2009. So what exactly does this mean for employers? The U.S. Department of Labor has made numerous changes to the regulations, and many employers are just beginning to analyze the impact of the new regulations on their organizations. In the meantime, however, there are several tangible steps that employers covered by the FMLA (i.e. employers with 50 or more employees) should take before January 16, 2009 in order to comply with the new regulations:
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By Dave La Montaine

During a recent conversation between Executive Director Orlowski and I, we were lamenting the lack of interest of Deputy Sheriff’s in politics. I had previously discussed the situation we had in Monroe County, and Larry asked me to tell the story.

Well Friends, I do believe it is a story worth telling. It has been over three years now sense the Monroe County Deputy Sheriff’s Association was forced to “go to war” to save jobs for Deputy Sheriff’s. At the time, our association had an on again off again political relationship with some local politicians. We had three County Commissioner’s, out of 9 who were friendly to our needs. The then Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, in an unprecedented move basically demanded millions of dollars in budget cuts from the Sheriff. The Sheriff advised that he would have to cut personal in order to meet the unrealistic demands of the Chairman.

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