The Teamsters union won by over 200 votes last night in their bid to oust the Fraternal Order of Police as the sole bargaining representative for Metro officers.
The Teamsters lost a bid to become bargaining representative by a few votes in the fall of 2004 and have been agitating against the FOP ever since. The Teamsters have long charged that because the FOP is made up of Metro police officers, it has had trouble taking on the police administration and its chief, Ronal Serpas.
Executive Director Brock Parks says the FOP will remain in “watch-dog mode,” and Parks had no kind words for Serpas either.
“I think this administration has created the low morale that exists in the department. It’s that low morale that I think kind of fed the fire of the Teamster challenge.”
Parks says turnout among officers was high, with over 1-thousand of the 12-hundred officers casting ballots.
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