Arbitrator Re-Run

So much for Conehead being a friend of unions. We guess it's only if you're in the correct union.

As promised, Arbitrator Benn affirmed his previous decision, saying cops have a Right to what every other unionized city worker has:

• City Council members violated their state constitutional oaths by denying Chicago police officers accused of the most serious wrongdoing the right to bypass the Police Board, risking a costly court challenge the city is destined to lose, an independent arbitrator warned Thursday.

  Independent arbitrator Edwin Benn had already affirmed and reaffirmed that state law guarantees that when Chicago police officers are recommended for firing, or for suspensions of over one year, they have the right to take their cases to an arbitrator who might be more sympathetic and would hold proceedings behind closed doors.

  Thursday’s second reaffirmation was no surprise and sends the matter back to the City Council for a second vote.

  But the tone of Benn’s second reaffirmation was unexpected.

Well, when you're dealing with children, sometimes you have to be firm.

And sometimes you have to swat them on the ass:

• Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara was so emboldened by Benn’s harsh tone, he’s heading straight to court to request for a summary judgment immediately enforcing the arbitrator’s ruling and a temporary restraining order to suspend all Police Board cases impacted by the ruling.

  “I’m not gonna wait for a very simple reason: I don’t trust the City Council and the mayor. ... They think political cover is more important. They want to do the easy thing instead of the right thing. That is the definition of a terrible leader,” Catanzara told the Sun-Times.

  “You’re noticing a trend here. [State’s Attorney] Kim Foxx gets to arbitrarily decide what the threshold for shoplifting is, even against statute. They think they get to arbitrarily decide what labor law is. They don’t. They’re supposed to uphold the current law. But they’re saying, ‘No. We know better.’”

That's the thing about democrats and "progressives" (but we repeat ourselves). They always know better than you little people and if you just listened to them and didn't demand a seat at the table, everything would be hunky-dory in their little totalitarian dictatorships.