Village, Police Union Headed to Arbitration Over New Contract
For months Caledonia officials have been saying they want police and fire union employees to pay what the non-union employees are paying toward pension and health care costs, but those provisions are not included in the village's "final" offer
After months of trying to settle the Caledonia police contract, the village and the union are officially at an impasse and asking the state to intervene. The Wisconsin Professional Police Association, the union that represents Caledonia police employees, and village officials handed in their final offers into Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission on March 31. Now the two sides are waiting for the offers to be certified before they pick an arbitrator, who will choose between the two offers and make the final decision. But neither offer calls for police union members paying 5.9 percent of their wages into their state pensions in 2012 or 2013. That's surprising because several trustees had made it clear earlier that police officers …
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11:33 pm on Monday, April 16, 2012
walker took away all village and towns ability to bargaing in good faith when he unfairly only targeted certain public employees with act ten! bad law, let's get rid of it! more ›