Pittsburgh’s police union is accusing the city of violating its contract by refusing to pay for health insurance for hundreds of spouses of dead officers — a decades-long practice the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 1 said it just learned about five years ago.
The city’s largest workers’ union wants Pittsburgh to reinstate those benefits — and also make back payments, with 6% interest, for the healthcare costs they say the city neglected to provide widows and widowers.
The union president said the total likely will top $5 million.