KTLA News: "Police Protective League holds membership meetings..." (1980)
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The KTLA newsfilm collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound.
Title: “Police Protective League holds membership meetings as contract negotiations with the city continue to break down.” Date: September 11, 1980.
Summary: The City of Los Angeles, and the Police Protective League (union for Los Angeles police officers) were involved in lengthy negotiations over benefits for police officers. Those talks ended at the end of July 1980 and began again in early September 1980, where they quickly broke down again on the issues of fringe benefits, compensation and the retroactive application of an eventual pay raise. In this clip, reporter Tony Valdez reports on members-only meetings of the Police Protective League at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Valdez describes how the bargaining has failed as both sides try to translate their ideas into dollar amounts, and that many police officers are torn between a sense of responsibility to the public and the impact inflation has had on their personal finances. Bill Violante, Vice President of the Police Protective League, is interviewed about the meetings and the possibility of job actions such as a strike or a sick-out known as the “blue flu.” Violante explains the city rejected the Protective League's most recent offer, and further states that officers are irritated with the negotiations and that they will be the ones to decide how they want the League to move forward. Valdez remarks that an outbreak of blue flu would be unprecedented in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department and that Police Chief Daryl Gates has gone on the record opposing any kind of job action. Includes footage of officers in street clothes waiting to get into the meeting room and having their ID checked against a list before being allowed in the room. Some segments containing the reporter's voiceover are audio only; additional footage lacks sound.
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Complete Record: The KTLA newsfilm collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound. Title: “Police Protective League holds membership meetings as contract negotiations with the city continue to break down.” Date: September 11, 1980. Summary: The City of Los Angeles, and the Police Protective League (union for Los Angeles police officers) were involved in lengthy negotiations over benefits for police officers. Those talks ended at the end of July 1980 and began again in early September 1980, where they quickly broke down again on the issues of fringe benefits, compensation and the retroactive application of an eventual pay raise. In this clip, reporter Tony Valdez reports on members-only meetings of the Police Protective League at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Valdez describes how the bargaining has failed as both sides try to translate their ideas into dollar amounts, and that many police officers are torn between a sense of responsibility to the public and the impact inflation has had on their personal finances. Bill Violante, Vice President of the Police Protective League, is interviewed about the meetings and the possibility of job actions such as a strike or a sick-out known as the “blue flu.” Violante explains the city rejected the Protective League's most recent offer, and further states that officers are irritated with the negotiations and that they will be the ones to decide how they want the League to move forward. Valdez remarks that an outbreak of blue flu would be unprecedented in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department and that Police Chief Daryl Gates has gone on the record opposing any kind of job action. Includes footage of officers in street clothes waiting to get into the meeting room and having their ID checked against a list before being allowed in the room. Some segments containing the reporter's voiceover are audio only; additional footage lacks sound. © The Regents of the University of California
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Many police officers expected to begin voting today on a new contract proposal. Their anger and frustration were clearly visible, however, this morning as they arrived at the Police Protective League's membership meeting at the convention center. Throughout the weeks since the current contract expired, negotiators for the union and the city have been meeting informally, laying the groundwork for an eventual settlement. But sources say problems have developed when the two sides sit down to formal bargaining sessions where the ideas are translated into dollars and cents. The league's meetings today, tomorrow, and Monday are closed to non-members. But this morning, Vice President Bill Bolante gave us a hint of what is being discussed. We are going to we're going to go in uh we're going to tell the our people what their options are. Uh we're going to tell them what the city's offer was. They will be able to look at that offer. Uh if they want us to go back in, if they want us to go to factf finding, mediation, uh there are a lot of alternatives available, blue flu, strike, various things. >> What would you estimate the likelihood is of some sort of a job action, blue flu or otherwise? It's our members are are highly irritated right now. Uh a lot of people are are tired of being jacked around by the city and of course it's very difficult to tell. We're going to present it and uh tell we're going to be truthful with what's happening and we'll let them decide what they want to do. Show us where it's at. If >> their name's on this list, they don't get in, right? >> Hey, guess what? You're on the list. Most officers maintain they're torn between a sense of responsibility to the public in their profession and the reality of inflation eating into the buying power of their paychecks. An outbreak of blue flu would be an unprecedented development in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department. But then up until last Monday, picketing by police officers was totally unheard of. Police Chief Daryl Gates has gone on record opposing any form of job action. High-ranking union officials agree with that. But ultimately, it will be the decision of 6,500 rank and file police officers that will decide what happens next. For News at 10, Tony Valdez. The last one is Police Strike. End of track. >> Hey, Kenny. We're have to figure out some way of checking these guys. There's one all the way to the end. All right. You want to get to the line here? Well, you guys have your ID out. >> You're on this list. You can't get in. Open this door here. >> Just check him outside. >> Just put it over here. This camera An outbreak of blue flu would be an unprecedented development in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department. But then up until Bill, what happened last night? Why did talks break off? >> Well, basically, uh, Tuesday night, we had come to what we thought to be an understanding with concepts, value, and cost to the officer. uh we gave the city a proposal based on that which uh in reality our salary proposal was less than 10% and what we wanted to do was take the additional 1% and put it into benefits and the city city to totally rejected that offer. I've noticed now over the past week Bill that when we interview you you talk about having reached tenative agreements with the city um outside of the negotiating room then when you sit down officially to the table things begin to fall apart. What's going on? Well, when we said when uh the last meeting Tuesday is when we thought that we had all those problems straightened out. That's why we went in went back to the table on Tuesday. Uh we went over those concepts. We sat down and both agreed as to what we were talking about. And then when we came back with our offer, it was rejected by the city. >> Why? Uh, one of the statements that we got back from the negotiator from the mayor was that he was insensed that we had the audacity to uh, want to take money out of the budget. Well, I don't know how else we're supposed to agree to a contract if we don't take money from the budget because that's where the money comes from. >> The first of three general meetings begins this morning. What do you think is going to happen
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