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Arbitrator’s Award on Pay Raises for Prison Guards Costs Pennsylvania County $5 Million
Loaded on June 3, 2015
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2015, page 28
Filed under:
Cost of Prison Systems,
Staffing,
Guards/Staff,
Employee Litigation,
Guard Unions.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
Arbitrator’s Award on Pay Raises for Prison Guards Costs Pennsylvania County $5 Million
by David M. Reutter
Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County Commission has been forced to dip into its reserve funds to comply with an “unaccountable” arbitration award that resulted in a 7% annual pay increase for the county’s prison guards. ...
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