Deputies’ Request for Arbitration Rejected
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A Superior Court judge on Monday turned down a request by the Ventura County Deputy Sheriff’s Assn. to take its unresolved labor dispute to a panel of arbitrators.
The union, representing 750 sheriff’s deputies, had asked Judge Henry J. Walsh to force county government leaders into arbitration after contract talks broke down. But Walsh agreed with the county’s assertion that a state law allowing arbitration for public safety employees is unconstitutional.
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