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2- THE STAR-HERALD: Thursday, December 18,1980Appeals due for suspended copsBy CHARLES STANLEYThe seven Tinley Park patrolmen sus pended last week for their absence from work during a “blue flu” job action last month planned to file appeals yesterday or today. Patrolman Roger Barton, president of the village patrolmen's union and one of the suspended officers, said Monday.The blue flue” which struck the village the weekend after Thanksgiving involved 19 of the two dozen full-time village patrolmenThe job action was the patrolmen’s un ion’s latest action in its three-and-one-half-vear effort to achieve collective barwgaining recognition from the village boardAS OF yesterday morning, the appeals had not been submitted, according to Village Manager Dennis KallsenOnce submitted, the appeals will be turned over to the village civil service commission, which will decide whether to grant appeal hearings to the individual officers. Kallsen said.The civil service commission — nextscheduled to meet January 6 — is not required to hold hearings on suspensions of less than five days.Each of the seven patrolmen was suspended without pay for two to four daysSUSPENDED WERE Patrolmen Tom Boling. Richard Bruno, Timothy Ehlers, Ralph Hilton. Dave Rogers, Phillip Valois and Barton.The suspensions originally were imposed by Police Chief Robert Long December 1, but stayed by action of the village board after the patrolmen, members of the Combined Counties Police association (CCPA), threatened to strike if the disciplinary action was carried outFollowing several days of closed-door and sometimes late night talks, the village board members restored the chief's authority to deal with the absences as he saw fit.Last week, Long reimposed the suspensionsCONCURRENT WITH restoring the chief's disciplinary authority, board members also reaffirmed its denial ofcollective bargaining status for theCCPA.Howeverm the trustees also empowered the fact finder attorney hired the day after the “blue flu” job action ended to convene a meeting by January 15 to discuss “public service contracts, village wages and benefits, and other related personnel matters, with the patrolmen.At Tuesday's village board meeting, John Flood, the CCPA’s president, with a heavy compliment of village patrolmen and spouses in the audience, spoke to board members, apparently to sound out whether the proposed meeting would be an attempt to stall the police union's efforts or “whether something positive will come of this.”Flood, arms crossed, asked the board whether it was prepared to “sit down and resolve this dispute” or, in an apparant veiled reference to further job actions, whether it wanted to “put the people of this community through an experience they do not need.”Village board members assured Flood they wanted to solve the labor problem.
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Tinley Park Palos Star Herald
Tinley Park, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 18, 1980
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