Politics & Government

Police Union Contract 1 of 4 Up for RTM Approval

3 unions would forego raises in 1st year of multi-year pacts.

The four labor pacts up for approval by the Representative Town Meeting Monday night, including a four-year pact with the union representing the Greenwich police department's rank-and-file, may end up being tabled until the RTM returns from its summer recess in September.

The RTM finance committee voted unanimously at its June 6 meeting to recommend the contracts be tabled.

There is a proposed four-year contract with the Silver Shield Association is retroactive to last year. It includes no increase for the first year and a 2 1/2 percent raise for each of the remaining three years. The major changes in the contract which covers, officers, sergeants and lieutenants, involve retirement and pensions. The union has agreed to eliminate the 20-year service requirement with a 25-year minimum service requirement with a minimum age of 50 for eligibility, for officers hired after July 1, 2011. Presently there isn't any minimum age requirement.

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Also, the contract also provides for increases in employee medical premium contributions.

Also on the RTM agenda is an agreement between the Board of Education and the Public Service Employees Local 136 of the Laborers International Union of North America AFL-CIO which covers paraprofessionals and school security personnel. The pact covers July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2013.

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The third contract covers the Greenwich Municipal Employees Association, also a four-year pact retroactive to 2010. There isn't a pay increase the first year for any of the 430 full- and part-time employees, with increases of 1.9 percent for 2011, and 2.3 percent for each of the remaining two years.

A fourth contract for another segment of professional employees covered by the LIUNA bargaining unit covers three years, retroactively to 2010. The first yeawr includes a 2 percent raise, with a 2.25 percent raise for 2011 and 2012. 

All of the contracts include provisions for increased employee prescription co-pays.

The RTM will meet at 8 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Ln.


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