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| Pa. union officials sue over '09 health fund deal |
| By .sfgate.com - Mark Scolforo |
| Published: 05/31/2013 |
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Leaders of the union for Pennsylvania's state prison guards filed a lawsuit Thursday that challenges a 2009 deal struck by then-Gov. Ed Rendell to divert a large surplus from the trust fund that pays health benefits for state employees. Four executive committee members of the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association sued in county court in Harrisburg, seeking to recover $226 million and remove several trustees from the Pennsylvania Employee Benefits Trust Fund. Their claim involves the deal that allowed the state to reduce payments into the fund in order to avoid threatened furloughs of state workers. But the prison guards say their union never went along, and that a promise to repay the money was not kept. Read More. |
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