BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Dozens of police officers in the Town of Tonawanda will be charged with violating the state’s Taylor Law after a town investigation found the officers participated in an illegal strike.
Sources told WIVB News 4 that the town wrapped up its investigation into the alleged illegal strike last week and sent its findings to the state’s public employment relations board. Letters to individual officers are set to go out this week.
Town leaders said officers participated in an illegal job action by operating a ticket strike from mid-January to the first week of February. The town has said that the strike was a response from the police union after an officer — who has since resigned — was disciplined…