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Fed up and Scal1024 miss the entire point of Shelton's truthful assessment of the effects of binding arbitration on cities and towns. At no time does he deride earned retirement benefits for any class of municipal employees! However what he is 100% correct about is that binding arbitration has given police and firefighters an unbelievable advantage in negotiations and phenomenal increases, since 1962 and 1963, in salaries and fringe benefits over their non-public safety municipal co-workers because the arbitration system is rigged, just as Shelton points out, in favor of unions whipsawing benefits that other unions have. The best example is the firefighter's cancer statute which FORNUNATELY our Supreme court just ruled was invalid as to conclusive presumption of any type of cancer being 100% job related. Job related cancer is definitely possible but if you smoke a pack od Marlboro's a day for more than 15 years and have lung cancer--DUH--it's not a job related disability!!