The officers of officers in a New York police department of a small town near the Canadian border have been folding for allegedly participating in an unauthorized work strike duration of a snowy section this winter.
The union described the fines as reprisals and an abuse of power that denied due process of the officers.
One of the officers says that accusations are not true. He went to work, participated in the training in service and even made a duration of a drunk driving stop when he snowed “every day.”
“They are upset because we did not make them enough money and fulfilled their perceived ticket share,” said Andy Thompson, a Tonawanda police officer and the president of the departments, the Tonawanda Police Club.
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Tonawanda police chief James More Stark, after an award ceremony in March. The local police union is pressing for their expulsion after the members were accused or an unauthorized strike. (Town or Tonawanda Police Department)
Tonawanda police chief James Stockier, whom the union is asking the city’s residents to expel, said Thompson’s accusations are “without merit.”
“I am behind the positions presented against the Union with the Board of Public Employee Relations and individual officers,” Digital told Fox News. “The process must be developed fairly and backgroundly.”
Thompson is among the almost 50 officers accused of going to the strike without authorization for an hour a day around a nine -day stretch and has had two hours of payment docked for each of those days, according to a letter that was a Towawanda Joether.
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“We don’t attack. We introduced ourselves to work every day. We did our job every day,” Thompson told Fox News Digital. “We did not write enough tickets, and we did not put enough money in the coffers of the city. And they decided that they will fine each officer.”
Ticket quotas are illegal according to the New York Law, he said, and reprisals in the workplace can also be.
Between the end of January and February, the city was given so much snowfall that he ran out of the road, and there was an increase in police calls. The officers also had to spend 16 hours doing mandatory training with new weapons issued by the department, a duration of the scarcity of personnel after seven officers retired or went to the beginning of the New Year, Thompson told Fox News Digital.
The headquarters of the Tonawanda Police Department (Google Maps)
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This year, the Tonawanda Police issued 123 tickets, according to a presentation before the New York Public Employment Relations Board. Between 2021 and 2024, the department issued between 439 and 653 in the same period. The city leaders alleged in the document that the decrease is the result that the officers hit without permission in violation of the civil service laws of the State.
“It’s unheard of,” said Mike O’Meara, president of the New York Police Conference, the largest police union in the state. “They are inventing this as they advance.”
The denunciation of the city’s labor complaint against the “unprecedented” Tonawanda officers, as well as the fines, which are twice as a salary per hour of the officers for every hour they allegedly hit.
“It may be unprecedented to affirm that a reduction in the emission of traffic tickets constitutes a strike,” said Jerry Cutler, author of “Legal Guide for Human Resources” and a professor at Columbia University. “However, the critical problem from a legal point of view is whether employees have refrained from performing their functions in the normal way.”
Andy Thompson is the president of the Local Police Union, the Tonawanda Police Club, and was accused of taking an unauthorized strike. (Andy Thompson)
Experts say that, apart from the dispute, it is reduced to those who have more convincing evidence.
“A reduction in the volume of tickets can aim at a concerted effort to interfere with the operations of the employer, in which case the action would like it to be constituting an illegal strike,” Cutler told Fox News Digital. “Alternatively, the evidence can suggest some legitimate reason for the volume of reduced tickets, or that this is not a comparative apt, which would lead to a finding that the law has not violated the leg.”
Department leaders say that officers get used to the strike to protest the tasks of disciplinary measures tonge tonawanda official Bikramjit Singh, a veteran of the accused American army or abuse when investigating a possible drug agreement.
“He had the chamber of his body on. He opened this bottle of water. There is a bag there,” said Thompson. “Look at the bag … he says it is garbage. He wraps her in his glove and eliminates it.”
However, a suspended drug trafficker and a drug user suspended later, the police were for drugs in the bag, and department officials moved to have fired to throw it, said Thompson. The alleged drugs never recovered, but Singh ended up renouncing since Fired could have cost him his law application certifications, Thompson said.
The supervisor of Tonawanda, Joe Emmantent, speaks during his speech about the state of the city, on February 7, 2025. He is involved in an ongoing dispute with the local police union. (City of Tonawanda/Facebook)
The tensions were already on a slow heat between the range and the file file, a designated Emmeador who accuse of unjustly forcing and retaining documents that question him to find a new job in the application of the law.
Stiller, a 30 -year -old department member, was appointed Chief five years ago as part of an effort to eradicate the corruption of the department. Thompson also refesses the new leadership, after having been president of the Union for approximately one year.
“There is no process, and all this was done between the supervisor and the law firm that represent the city, which also donates large amounts of money to the supervisors of the city and the city of the democratic parties of the city of Tonawanda”, Modsocatic Publisesssssssss. “So, it is more a witch hunt than anything else.”
Herdemer did not respond to a request for comments. Neinder made the city law firm.
Thompson believes that the accusations mark the first time that the State Civil Service Law has been used to punish police officers for not complying with the “quotas” after Heer lost money due to a decrease in traffic appointments issued by snowfall.
“This will end until all this is over,” said Thompson. “This has never been done before a police union.”
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The union has launched a public campaign that urges residents to demand that local leaders eliminate Stark Stark, whom they accuse of reprisals and harassment and retention of “basic equipment”, including winter coats.
According to the union, the duration of time allegedly were on strike, the department still made seven drunk driving judges, issued more than 300 tickets and responded to almost 2,000 calls more service than the same period aod aod aod aod aod aod aod aod aod aod aod aod aod aod ad ad
“The true losers are city residents,” O’Meara told Fox News Digital. “They are saying:” Be sure to label the residents of this city. “
