City of Jeannette v. Fraternal Order of Police Jeannette Lodge No. 24

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

This appeal calls upon us to again review an arbitration award issued pursuant to the Act of June 24, 1968, P.L. 237, 43 P.S. §217.1 et seq. (commonly referred to as Act No. Ill), which granted to police officers expanded benefit rights and which appellant, *166City of Jeannette, asserts to be violative of the statutory law on the subject.1

In City of Reading v. Reading F. O. P. No. 9, 15 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 344, 325 A.2d 675 (1974), we said:

The general subject of pensions is a bargain-able issue under Act No. Ill, being one of the enumerated subjects encompassed…