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Garrity Right: Protection and Prohibition Triggered by Compulsion

Garrity Right: Protection and Prohibition Triggered by Compulsion

By FRANK A. GUIDO
POAM General Counsel


A recent article, Take the Garrity Quiz, Do You Know Your Rights?, which appeared in the Winter 2004-2005 edition of The Peace Officer, ...

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Overtime Right Remains Protected

Written by Ed Jacques, LEJ Editor


On January 6, 2010, POAM and its affiliate the Highland Park Police Officers Association filed a grievance to uphold contract language requiring shifts to ...

  • Decision Re-Affirms PERA as Dominant Law

    By Ed Jacques, LEJ Editor


    In September 2008, negotiators for the City of Belleville and POAM on behalf of the Belleville Police Officers Association reached a tentative agreement on a ...