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PBA Jumps Back On Contract Horse, Asks City for New Talks

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 11/30/15

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, stung by what it considered a disappointing contract award that led it to harshly attack both the arbitrator who delivered it and the city’s top negotiator—who signed off on it—is looking to get back to the bargaining table before the end of the year.

Sources on both sides said the union had, within a week of the Nov. 13 arbitration award granting just two 1-percent raises under a two-year contract, sent a letter to Labor Relations Commissioner Robert W. Linn formally requesting bargaining on a new agreement.

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