Mayor de Blasio announces labor agreement with NYC uniformed officers
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday night that the city has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Uniformed Superior Officers Coalition, marking the administration's first contracts with uniformed unions.
The deal means that de Blasio's administration has now reached agreements with 71 percent of the city workforce that had previously been working under expired contracts.
The USOC represents eight unions: the Detectives Endowment Association, Uniformed Fire Officers Association, Lieutenants Benevolent Association, Sanitation Officers Association, Correction Captains Association, Captains Endowment Association, Assistant Deputy Wardens/Deputy Warden Association and Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs Association. The approximately 11,900 employees they represent have worked without a contract since either 2011 or 2012. The terms of the agreements must be approved by the unions' full in-service membership.
The pattern of the tentative agreement takes the established pattern of the administration's prior contracts and adds a 1 percent raise in Year One.
The proposed seven-year contract would begin, retroactively, on dates ranging from March 2011 for the UFOA to July 2012 for the SOA, and expire seven years thereafter, respectively.
"These uniformed officers serve and protect us every day. They watch over our families and our neighborhoods-and they deserve a contract that delivers fair wages while protecting the City's long-term fiscal health," said de Blasio. "We set out earlier this year to restore a productive and respectful dynamic between the City and its employees. And today, 71 percent of our workforce is working under contract agreements, including the unprecedented and guaranteed health care savings. Above all, this is an agreement that respects the difficult and often dangerous work our uniformed officers perform."
In total, the MLC and the City have agreed to secure $3.4 billion in health care savings through Fiscal Year 2018, and $1.3 billion in savings every year thereafter.
