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San Bernardino targets $190,000 firefighter pay

San Bernardino, California, said that to exit bankruptcy it must terminate a union contract that pays an average annual salary of $190,000 to each of its top 40 firefighters.

By Steven Church | Updated on June 20, 2014

June 20 (Bloomberg) — San Bernardino, California, said that to exit bankruptcy it must terminate a union contract that pays an average annual salary of $190,000 to each of its top 40 firefighters.

In about three weeks, the city may try to use a federal bankruptcy law to cancel firefighter and police contracts if talks on new agreements fail, its lead bankruptcy attorney, Paul Glassman, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith Jury at a hearing yesterday.

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