Contract

So, I've been without a raise or contract for the past three years. You see Fort Lee fought our raise in 2006. Since then, my PBA has been fighting with the Borough but have gotten nowhere. We went to Arbitration in 2008 and the State awarded our contract. The Borough didn't agree and fought the decision, twice!! Finally the the State told the Borough to pay us and award the raise and new items in our contract. The Borough had a meeting and decided to file an appeal with the New Jersey Supreme Court Appellate Division. Now we have to file a motion in Bergen County Superior Court to force the Borough to pay us for their violation of the State's decision. Crazy stuff right! Did you know that no Arbitrator has ever been overturned in the Appellate Division for these types of contracts. Why is the Borough doing this? Because it adds $14,000.00 to their Pension investment at the end of every year now. Currently they have spent over $250,000.00 in fighting us and a possible addition loss of $225,000.00 by filling the appeal. I don't know, but I think if they wanted to make a point, there were better ways of doing it then giving their Attorneys half a million for a lost cause. Oh well, just thought I would vent a little. I guess I will see my raise in June, almost four years after we started. Then in January 2011, this contract ends and we do it all over again.