{"id":93254,"date":"2016-01-28T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93254"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:12:26","slug":"police-chief-thompson-files-grievance-against-werkhoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93254","title":{"rendered":"Thompson files grievance against Werkhoven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/thompsonFred.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2600\" alt=\"thompsonFred\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/thompsonFred-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Valley City (CSi) Valley City\u2019s Police Chief has now filed a grievance against Mayor Bob Werkhoven, for creating a hostile work environment.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Myhre, Swenson, issue grievances about Mayor\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93014\" target=\"_blank\">Additionally, \u00a0a police Lt., \u00a0the City Attorney, &amp; City Administrator have brought grievances<\/a>. \u00a0See list below.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson says since his appointment as Police Chief indiviuals have expressed to him that Mayor Werkhoven hated Lt. David Swenson. Thompson says the Mayor\u2019s comments and refusal to perform his duties as mayor in a ceremony promoting Swenson during a city commission meeting are rude, improper and inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, in his grievance statement, questioned why the mayor never talked to him about rumors of sexual harassment against Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson says according to City Administrator David Schelkoph no employee submitted any complaint alleging any instances of sexual harassment against Chief Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is represented by attorney Joseph Larson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CSiNewsNOW News Background: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 2010: \u00a0Werkhoven defeats incumbent Mayor Mary Lee Nielsen<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Recall Official, Werkhoven, Magnuson Win\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1180\" target=\"_blank\">January 2012<\/a>: \u00a0Werkhoven survives recall election defeating former police chief Dean Ross<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"June 2014 election results\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47576\" target=\"_blank\">June 2014<\/a>: \u00a0\u00a0Werkhoven re-elected,\u00a0\u00a0defeating Jeff Edwards.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Myhre, Swenson, issue grievances about Mayor\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93014\" target=\"_blank\">January 2016<\/a>: \u00a0City Attorney Russell Myhre and police Lt. David Swenson bring grievances.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thompson files grievance against Werkhoven\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93254\" target=\"_blank\">January 2016<\/a>: \u00a0Police Chief Fred Thompson brings grievance.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Schelkoph brings grievance against Werkhoven\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93324\" target=\"_blank\">January 2016<\/a>: \u00a0City Administrator David Schelkoph has brought a grievance.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Werkhoven responds to allegations\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93335\" target=\"_blank\">January 2016<\/a>: \u00a0Mayor Werkhoven responds to allegations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City (CSi) Valley City\u2019s Police Chief has now filed a grievance against Mayor Bob Werkhoven, for creating a hostile work environment. Additionally, \u00a0a police Lt., \u00a0the City Attorney, &amp; City Administrator have brought grievances. \u00a0See list below. Thompson says since his appointment as Police Chief indiviuals have expressed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93254"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93433,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93254\/revisions\/93433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}