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Infuriated by Proposed 1% Raises, PBA Takes Beef Home to Arbiter

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 11/9/15

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, angry that the chairman of its contract arbitration panel has proposed limiting its award to a pair of 1-percent raises over two years, tried to pressure Howard C. Edelman to change his mind with a full-page New York Post ad calling him “the poster boy for the weal­thy ‘one-percenters’ who have made their fortune off of the backs of hard-working New Yorkers” and holding a large rally Nov. 5 outside his Upper East Side apartment building.

Dubbing him “Mister 1%,” the ad concluded, “Is he just callous? Or is he something worse?”

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