LOS ANGELES : Officer Barred From LAPD Job Action

A judge issued a restraining order Friday against a Los Angeles police officer who is believed to be organizing a mass sickout planned for Monday, but other officers said the action is expected to go ahead as planned.

Meanwhile, Police Chief Willie L. Williams said he supports the officers’ fight for a pay raise but urged them to report to work as scheduled and remember the communities they are sworn to serve.

“It is both legally and morally wrong,” Williams said of the planned job action.

As negotiations continued Friday in City Hall in an effort to end the labor dispute, Deputy City Atty. Art Walsh won the order preventing Officer Gary Morgan from participating in the so-called blue flu or urging his colleagues to join.

Morgan resigned from the Police Protective League’s negotiating team this month to protest his union’s handling of the talks. Later, officers voted by a 3-1 margin to reject a contract deal proposed by the city and the union leadership.

That deal would have given officers a 3% raise over each of the next two years.