John M. Donoghue, a veteran arbitrator who until 2012 was also an attorney specializing in labor and employment law, has been chosen as the chairman of the arbitration panel created to break the deadlock between the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the de Blasio administration on a new contract for the union’s 25,000 members.
The old pact expired Aug. 1, 2017, and less than two weeks later PBA President Patrick J. Lynch filed for arbitration. Assuming the panel ultimately decides the terms of a new deal, it will be the fifth time in seven negotiations during his nearly 20 years in office that the union gets its contract through a third party.
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