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Article: San Jose Mercury News, Calif., the column: Internal Affairs.(Column)
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
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- February 11, 2007
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Feb. 11--Breaking up is hard to do, especially for normally chummy San Jose police officers and firefighters. The two groups are squabbling over how to divvy their shared pension plan now that they've struck separate labor contracts with the city. The dispute dates to December 2005, when the city council approved a labor contract raising police pay and pensions. The firefighters' contract is now in arbitration.
The city's retirement board has been trying to figure out how to keep track of things now that the cops and firefighters have different pension benefits. Firefighters, whose maximum pension is still 85 percent of their salary, ...