Sergeant Arbitration

After three years without a Contract, the PBPA has declared an impasse and will be filing for arbitration sometime before summer. A few points:

• the PBPA loses nothing by going first as it were. It is a separate entity from the FOP and any decisions reached by them are supposed to be in the best interests of their membership, not the FOP's;
• we're told that the meetings were pretty much (1) City demands, (2) PBPA refuses to negotiate, (3) City leaves, so there isn't anything on the table. We're also told there is no "me too" among the FOP and PBPA;
• by filing before Lightfoot is even in power, the PBPA could wrong-foot the city negotiating team, unless she keeps Rahm's people in place;

We state this only because there have been a few tiny brains in the comments spouting off about how the sergeants caved and are screwing the rest of us. Obviously they haven't been through contract negotiations before - it's every group for themselves - laborers, streets, teachers, fire, FOP, PBPA, etc.