” The 2011 court ruling that awarded huge raises and millions of dollars in back pay to Scranton firefighters and police officers was a windfall for retirees too, with some seeing a more than 80 percent hike in their pensions between 2008 and 2012, a Times-Tribune investigation found.”
As UNIONS rule, cities go bankrupt.
Guaranteed.
Last time I looked, Scranton/Wilkes-barre is nothing but a Noo Yawk exurbia. Another Leftist enclave.
Let it go full Detroit. They deserve it.
The politicians that made the pension increase deal were undoubtedly elected with union money so they were just doing what the unions elected them to do, taxpayers be da**ed.