An arbitrator has ruled that the state's correctional officers are not entitled to a pay raise based on an increase the California Highway Patrol union negotiated for its members last year. In his Sept. 1 ruling, arbitrator Norman Brand found that the state did not violate its since-expired contract with the California Correctional Peace Officers Association it when rebuffed the union's claim that a raise must follow the increase awarded to the CHP. The CCPOA filed a grievance last September saying members should have gotten the raise based on the union's old contract. The expired agreement established a methodology that...