Interest arbitration and the need for candor

Arbitrator Richard Miller reopened and reconsidered an interest arbitration between Hennepin County, MN and Law Enforcement Labor Services, Inc., Local No. 393, concluding that the County had "purposely withheld" information that had been requested by the Union. In the initial proceeding, Arbitrator Miller rejected the Union's requested wage increase for a unit of Licensed Supervisors, finding: The Union is not a victim of disparate treatment. All County employees were treated the same. The County’s philosophy on collective bargaining was to offer uniform pay increases and benefit improvements across all bargaining units unless compelled by good evidence to do otherwise. …   More importantly, the Employer never deviated from the internal wage pattern unless specific evidence – meeting defined criteria – justified doing so. Only in those limited cases where attraction or retention problems warranted greater pay did the County voluntarily adjust…

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