For the fourth time in its last five rounds of bargaining, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association appears headed for binding arbitration of its contract after a mediator concluded that the union and the de Blasio administration could not resolve their differences through negotiations.
Mediator Alan R. Viani has written to the Public Employment Relations Board—which appointed him to try to resolve the deadlock after the PBA sought the declaration of a bargaining impasse in early May—stating that he believes arbitration is required, according to a spokesman for PBA President Patrick J. Lynch.
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