Police Approve New 3-Year Contract
They are the first of three town unions to settle their contract.
The police union approved a new three-year contract Monday night in a 20-2 vote. The contract now goes before the Town Council for a vote Jan. 28. The contract gives no raise the first year, a 2 percent raise in year two, and a 3 percent raise in year three. The police union is the first of the town’s three unions to settle a contract. Contracts for all three unions expired at the end of the last fiscal year – June 30, 2012 – so this new police contract, if approved by the Council, will be retroactive to July 1, 2012. Lieutenant Stanley "Skip" Cirella, the union representative for the police, said negotiations with the town began a year ago. “It is definitely a process that takes time,” he said. “As usual we do hope to complete …
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10:14 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
You can be assured a very, very, very small percentage of municipal town employees have no Co-pay. They have been working for the town for 20-30 years and it was part of their contract. Some of them only make between 35- 40k. after that many years of service. And any new hires for beyond the last decade plus have Co-pays. Sometimes it's the details that make all the difference in a story. Hey, … more ›