With another round of police contract talks seriously stalled, the Bloomberg administration asked a state labor agency yesterday to appoint an arbitration panel to settle a long-running contract dispute with the New York City's largest police union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. The call for arbitration highlights the tense relationship the administration has with the politically potent police union.
See "City Seeks Arbitration to Reach Pact With Police", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, July 9, 2006