By Jim Cline and Troy Thornton
This is the second of two articles on recent Interest Arbitration decisions as part of our Annual Wage survey. A summary of all recent arbitrations since 2008 is available on the Premium website. This article covers a September 2020 decision by Arbitrator Jeffrey Jacobs involving the Washington State Fish & Wildlife Officers Guild (FWOG). While there were a few decisions last fall involving State employee bargaining units that are unique to those groups, this decision and the previously discussed Clark County decision are the only arbitration decisions involving public safety employee wage arbitration since the pandemic. (There is a November 2020 decision involving the Snohomish County corrections officers that only concerns their health insurance coverage.)
This is part 12 of our Annual wage series. In this portion of the series, we turn to a couple of 2020 arbitration decisions as we attempt to assess how these decisions may or may not impact overall settlement trends. In this article, we discuss a decision issued by Arbitrator Richard Ahearn involving the 
