The Fraternal Order of Police has learned that Mayor Taylor intends to move forward with a request to the City Council to dissolve the current collective bargaining and binding arbitration process used for the last several years. As President of the FOP, representing the Salisbury City Police Department in this process, I am asking for the support of our community and the City Council to oppose this action. I also want to emphasize that this process includes our city firefighters and supports all Salisbury City first responders who serve this community.
Collective bargaining provides a fair and structured process for resolving important issues. We remain open and willing to adjust our proposals to reach a balanced agreement; however, as of today, no formal counteroffer has been received. Instead, there is now an effort by the Mayor to use the Council to end the process.
Maintaining collective bargaining is critical for stability within our public safety agencies and directly impacts morale, recruitment, and retention. If officers are no longer able to have a voice in negotiating competitive starting salaries and other terms, it could lead to officers seeking opportunities elsewhere, further straining staffing levels.
Just a few days ago, our State’s Attorney, Jamie Dykes, stated to WMDT, “When agencies struggle to recruit or retain qualified personnel, response times increase, proactive policing declines, and the overall effectiveness of the system begins to erode.” She also called for a “realistic and honest” discussion about providing competitive and sustainable compensation for officers.
At a time when surrounding agencies offer more competitive salaries, preserving a fair and consistent process is more important than ever.
We believe the Mayor’s attempt to end collective bargaining is inconsistent with the approach the State’s Attorney has encouraged. The right path forward is to continue negotiations, not discontinue them before meaningful dialogue has taken place.
I respectfully encourage members of our community to make their voices heard on Monday, April 13, 2026, at 6:00 PM, during the next Council meeting, and ask the members of the City Council to oppose any effort to dissolve the current agreement and support continued good-faith negotiations.
F’ cops, who get paid to abuse people and violate laws, who don’t have morals and ethics! Who get paid to ruin peoples lives and who deal with people at their worst times in life and treat them like crap then claim they are heros! And what is more funny and laughable is how you bootlickers defend cops at all cost showing that you to are for pushing tyranny and having your rights taken from you! You do know my rights are your rights, and your rights are your kids rights and grandkids rights, you do know that right? And if mine go, yours goes and so does theirs! It isn’t if but when the cops do to you what you praise them for doing to others in their worst days of live, your tune will change. Just like how the SCOTUS is now saying cops can’t use the last 2 seconds of action to justify being a piece of crap human being and manufacturing a situation where you escalate to murder someone. So those cops who love to jump on cars as it drives away so they can shoot people, can’t use qualified immunity because they didn’t have to put themselves in danger like that so they can murder someone. Oh and wait for this to be used against those pieces of crap ICE agents who step in front of a car when he can step to the side and not get hit, so he can shoot someone.
Interesting. Although I’m a big supporter of police, I would be very interested to hear the mayor’s reasoning.
Collective bargaining = Yes
There is strength in numbers
Unions are the only means for the working man and woman to earn a livable wage working 40 hours a week.
Unions are the only means for a lazy dunce to rip off the rest of us!
Looks like I have another official to trash and dig up dirt on. Q we