Court upholds complaint by Garfield police union against chief
Source: North Jersey
BY MICHAEL PHILLIS
Garfield’s police chief should not have kicked a member of the police union out of the room and threatened to fire him during a closed-door meeting, an appeals court affirmed on Monday.
The ruling stems from a 2011 incident where union members, Officer Pedro Gongora and Det. Everett Garnto Jr. sat down with Capt. Raymond Kovach and Police Chief Kevin Amos to discuss how officers would respond when a member of the force was in trouble. Amos considered changing the policy, which had called for all officers to respond when a single member was in trouble. Some members thought changing the policy would put officers in danger.
At a pause in the conversation, Gongora said, “Chief, [with] all due respect, I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. We don’t know what we have,” according to the decision by the appeals court.
What happened next is disputed but eventually, Amos asked Gongora to leave the office. Gongora initially refused causing Amos to more forcefully tell the union member to exit if he wanted to keep his job, according to the court decision.
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EVERY CEO in the USA has a contract with the board. Shouldn't EVERY worker have a UNION contract behind them too?