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March/April newsletter 2012 available now - click BlueNote logo above
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Selected Site updates:
- North Carolina FOP strongly opposes Fayetteville City Councils action...for more information Click Here and here for NCFOP Position Statement
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Nominations are now being accepted for the North Carolina Fraternal Oder of Police - Officer of the Year award!
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The North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police 2012 Officer of the Year Award nominations deadline has not yet been set so please get your nominees in soon. The award will be presented at the 2012 Spring Board Meeting being held in Fayetteville, NC. Nominations for this award are currently open. We urge each of you to encourage your membership in the suggestion of nominations of our worthy Brothers and Sisters. The Officer of the Year Award recognizes our Brothers and Sisters for their outstanding performance in and contributions to our profession. Please adhere as closely as possible to award criteria; the criterion accompanies this memorandum for your convenience. We look forward to many nominations to consider for this award. If you have any questions regarding this process please contact the Committee Chariman, Phillip Ferguson through our State Lodge Office.
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For Award Qualifications details.. Click here!
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President Mangum daily reports from Biennial Conference. Click here!
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Blue Note January/February will be available soon.
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2011 Legislative Report, updated July 19, 2011. Click here!
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BlueNote May/June 2011 edition is available. Click here!
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Hickory Mayor assails collective bargaining
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Reid Yields To Pressure from Landrieu
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2010 Candidate Endorsements. Click here!
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An exchange of messages between NC FOP President Terry Mangum and Senator Kay Hagen.
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A bill recently introduced in the Legislature could dramatically affect the future of law enforcement in North Carolina. Click here!
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The FOP-IAFF collective bargaining bill has been offered as an amendment to H.R. 4899. Click here!
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Open letter from Jennifer Shelton, widow of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Jeff Shelton. Click here!
Welcome to the refreshed NC
Fraternal Order of Police website! Now
you may click here
or the logo above to visit our companion
Facebook
page!
Member Attention Requested!
A Note from National
FOP President Chuck
Canterbury
Reference: States
and Bankruptcies
In the past few weeks and as much as a month ago, we have been hearing about a proposal to allow states to declare bankruptcy therefore avoiding fully funding pensions or other debts.
The rumors have stated that the author is everyone from Sarah Palin to Newt Gingrich and as of today�s date there has been no legislation proposed.
Please do not think that I am downplaying this action as we do understand the very serious nature of this type to legislation and even if it fails it will continue to promulgate the theory that Public Unions have been the problem.
As I stated last month, we do not believe that Public Unions have caused the problems but we do agree that bad management and poor responses by management have exacerbated the problems.
We will be monitoring the Congress and will provide you information as soon as we get it but I want you all to understand that there will be many problems to this legislation that may prove to be too big for this to pass.
The National Credit Rating would be so affected that the United States would have major problems with the world money markets and would adversely affect the worth of the US dollar.
Many of the voters are invested in Municipal Bonds and allowing bankruptcy would have a devastating affect on the MUNI Bond Market.
There will obviously be a constitutional challenge to this legislation.
All Public Unions will oppose and I am sure a coalition of Unions will emerge to fight a change like this.
Chuck
Canterbury
NO QUARTER FOR UNIONS Hickory
Daily Record The
Senate bill, introduced Dec. 1 by Sen. Harry
Reid, would mandate collective bargaining for
local government. �It�s called the �Public
Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act,�
but it�s anything but cooperative,� Wright
said. �It�s forced
unionism, and it would make our ability to talk
with employees go
away.� Wright�s comments came at the
Catawba County Chamber of Commerce to a crowd
of area public
officials. The
proposed federal law would mainly affect police
officers, firefighters and emergency response
personnel. Employees and
officers of sheriff�s offices would be
exempt... READ MORE
>> I
read your article, �No quarter for unions,�
and found it to be full of misinformation and
untruths, in addition to being extremely
one-sided. The Mayor has either not read
the bill or has chosen to expound the talking
points of the League of Municipalities. I
would like to provide the truth as it relates
to some of the Mayor�s quotes.
BARGAINING BILL
BETRAYED Chuck
Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal
Order of Police, expressed profound
disappointment with a decision by Senate
Majority Leader Harry M. Reid �Mary
Landrieu has been working very hard for several
years to undermine our efforts on this
legislation,� Canterbury explained. �She
may be popular with a handful of Sheriffs in
her State, but she is no friend of law
enforcement. The provision she insisted on
would recognize the rights of some law
enforcement officers, while denying these same
rights to Sheriff�s Deputies. This will allow
Sheriffs to perpetuate their exploitation of
employees who have no rights or recourse�a
culture that sees its fullest expression in
Louisiana. Every at-will Deputy that loses his
or her job to an unaccountable Sheriff will
have Mary Landrieu to
thank.� Senator
Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA) was the only Democrat
in the conference whom the FOP considered
unreliable on this bill. Each time the
legislation seemed headed toward consideration,
Senator Landrieu would introduce amendments
opposed by the FOP in an effort to weaken or
nullify the bill�s impact in her home
State. �We
all remember the so-called �Louisiana
Purchase� or $300 million dollar payoff that
Senator Landrieu received in exchange for her
vote in favor of the health care bill. This is
more of the same,� Canterbury said. �I am
disappointed with Senator Reid�s decision to
move forward with a bill that does not serve
the broad interest of rank-and-file officers
and, for this reason, the law enforcement labor
community cannot
support.� The
Senate has three bills pending before it
entitled the �Public Safety
Employers-Employee Cooperation Act�: S. 1611,
introduced by Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and
the late Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA); S. 3194,
introduced by Senator Reid, and S. 3991, which
was introduced yesterday without the support of
the Fraternal Order of Police. While all three
bills would recognize the fundamental right of
public safety employees to form and join unions
and bargain collectively with their employers
over wages, hours, and working conditions, the
most recent version of the bill and the one
Senator Reid has agreed to move would allow
Sheriffs to deny these basic rights to their
Deputies. �I
expect S. 3991 to be called up sometime this
week or next,� Canterbury said. �Without
the FOP�s support, I am not sure it will have
enough votes to invoke cloture, so this may be
a moot point in any
case.� The Fraternal Order of Police is
the largest law enforcement labor organization
in the United States, with more than 330,000
members. And again
with Kay Hagan
Hickory Mayor, area
officials denounce collective bargaining
bill
HICKORY
NC -- An attempt to advance a
collective bargaining bill in Congress prompted
a vitriolic response Tuesday from Hickory Mayor
Rudy Wright.
[Editor's note: Below is an excerpt
and link to President Mangum's response
to the HDR article]
December 10,
2010
Hickory Daily
Record
Reporter Larry
Clark,
As President of the North Carolina
Fraternal Order of Police, I feel obligated to
respond to this article in support of the
members of Catawba County Lodge 26, the other
fifty-eight Lodges across the State, and all of
North Carolina law enforcement. READ MORE
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Reid Yields
To Pressure from Landrieu and Weakens
Bargaining Bill (D-NV), who introduced
still another version of the �Public Safety
Employer-Employee Cooperation Act.� The
latest version, S. 3991, was essentially
gutted, allowing Sheriffs and Sheriff�s
Deputies to be exempted from the bill�s
protections.
Click
here! to
review an exchange of messages
between
Terry Mangum,
President, NC Fraternal Order of Police
and Senator Kay R. Hagan (D) North
Carolina.
Framed by the Action Message below and this quote from the Senator's website "Kay R. Hagan has worked for the people of North Carolina as a champion for working families, ..." these three (now four) messages should be of great interest to any NC FOP member, supporter and working family in North Carolina.
A NC Biennial Conference update from President Mangum
Brothers and Sisters,
I send
you greetings from the North Carolina State
Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police. As you know,
we held our Fall Board of Directors meeting and
State Biennial Conference in Rocky Mount on
September 21 st - 26th.
Rocky Mount
Lodge 46 did an outstanding job and the members
are to be commended for their efforts in
providing the attendees with an exceptional
Board Meeting and State Conference. And a very
special thank you is sent to Greg Brown, Bill
Davis, Ricky Parks, and Mark Rosenfield for
making this such a special time for all in
attendance. READ
MORE>>
The Fraternal Order Of Police is the oldest and largest law enforcement organization in the world.
Founded in 1915, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the FOP has grown to over 325,000 members with affiliate lodges in Canada and Ireland.
Over 1,000 of the 2,100 lodges operate under collective bargaining agreements.
Welcome to our NC FOP State Lodge site!
The FOP in North Carolina emerged on the scene in 1954, with the first lodge located in Asheville. Today Harold C. Enloe Lodge #1 has over 250 members and continues with the slogan, "Building on a proud tradition".
Currently there are fifty-nine local lodges totaling over 6,300 law enforcement officers from the mountains to the coast.
News Releases
NC FOP Announces Candidate Endorsements
Cary NC – The State Lodge of the N.C. Fraternal Order of Police has been closely observing the contested legislative and judicial races, the candidates, their comments and positions.
Following opportunities to hear from the individual candidates at the Biennial Conference the assembled delegates voted to endorse the following candidates:
News Release · Oct 17, 2010 
Past FOP President Honored in Oklahoma
Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, offered congratulations to Past National President Richard Boyd, who has been selected as one of the original inductees for the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Hall of Fame.
News Release · Dec 2, 2009
Terrorist’s Speech Blocked - FOP’s Complaint to Parole Commission Prevents Travel to UMASS
Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, was pleased to announce that, thanks to the FOP, convicted terrorist Raymond Luc Levasseur will not be an honored guest and speaker at the University of Massachusetts today.
News Release · Nov 15, 2009
NCFOP Expresses Outrage over Release of Inmates
The North Carolina State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, has joined Governor Perdue and various victims advocacy groups expressing shock over a N.C. Supreme Court ruling that forces the early release of murderers and rapists, some of whom were originally sentenced to death.
News Release · Oct 16, 2009
Legislative Updates
NC Legislative Alert
A bill recently introduced in the Legislature could dramatically affect the future of law enforcement in North Carolina. Senate Bill 1450, “State Retirement Age and Service Change,” would make various changes in the retirement age for State employees, including State law enforcement officers.
The Bill Sponsors - - and your local legislators - - need to hear from you now!
Legislative Update · Jun 22, 2010