of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that retiree medical benefits had not "vested” during the term of the collective bargaining agreement for those private employees who had not retired before the agreement expired. For several reasons, this case is inapposite. The employer in Winnett was a private employer, not a public employer, so its employees could — and did — strike, and the employer could — and did — implement its last best offer upon that strike. Id. at 1003. The court was therefore determining not whether the expired agreement's terms persisted to maintain a static status quo but instead whether, under federal labor law, the employee’s retiree benefits had "vested” as soon as he became eligible to retire. Cf. Appeal of Town of Rye, 140 N.H. 323, 666 A.2d 948, 950, 953 (1995)
holding that the pittsburgh police department did not illegally terminate an officers hla benefits and that the police department was entitled to a subrogation interest against the officers thirdparty settlement holding that an accumulated sick leave buyback provision applicable when police officers left the town police department vested when the cba was in effect and must be maintained without change in substance or effect during the status quo period holding that an employee suspended because of the employees participation in an interview concerning her employment problems with a state police department did not impermissibly affect the states interest in the efficiency and performance of the police department and that the employee therefore was entitled to damages arising from the suspension holding that appellants complaint on appeal that the environment was coercive did not change the fact that he was not in custody when he voluntarily went to the police station was told several times he could leave and did leave after the interrogation holding that even if the plaintiff had asserted a cause of action under the virginia wrongful death act against the city police officers the police officers would be entitled to sovereign immunity