MAYOR DE BLASIO, UNIFORMED OFFICERS COALITION ANNOUNCE TENTATIVE CONTRACT AGREEMENT

City establishes uniformed pattern for 2017-2021 round of bargaining; almost 80 percent of workforce now under contract

  Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City of New York has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Uniformed Officers Coalition (UOC). Today’s agreement means that the Administration has now reached agreements with nearly 80 percent of the City workforce. The UOC represents eight unions representing over 16,200 employees combined: the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, Correction Captains Association, Assistant Deputy Wardens/Deputy Wardens Association, Lieutenants Benevolent Association, Captains Endowment Association, Uniformed Fire Officers Association, Sanitation Officers Association, and the Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs Association.

This 36-month contract contains annual raises of 2.25%, 2.50% and 3.00%. This represents compounded wage increases of 7.95% over 3 years, a term seven months shorter than the pattern agreements reached with civilian unions representing nearly 75 percent of the workforce.

“The work of these uniformed officers is crucial to the safety and security of our city,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “These employees put their safety on the line every single day, and we are tremendously grateful for their service and proud to pay them a fair wage.”

“After an extensive negotiations process, I’m pleased to report that COBA has reached the best possible economic deal for our over 10,000 members, who will be seeing close to an 8% raise over a 36 month term,” said Elias Husamudeen, President of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. “New York City Correction Officers are the unsung heroes of law enforcement and ensuring they receive the wages and benefits they deserve is paramount to the COBA. We now look forward to negotiating the non-economic components of this contract in the weeks ahead. I thank the leaders of the other uniformed unions who stood shoulder to shoulder with us throughout this process and I thank Mayor Bill de Blasio and OLR Commissioner Renee Campion for their efforts to negotiate this deal as well.”

“This core economic agreement acknowledges the special contribution of our uniformed members and provides a roadmap to resolve open items left over from the last round of bargaining.  I want to commend Commissioner Campion and her entire team on their openness and resourcefulness in creating an overall economic agreement that I can rely upon and I look forward to full resolution in the coming days so I can deliver a contract that meets the approval of my members,” said Roy T. Richter, President of the NYPD Captains Endowment Association.

“Today the UFOA was one of eight uniformed unions that agreed to a fair and appropriate collective bargaining agreement for 36 months.  This agreement recognizes the important contribution of the members of the UFOA and other uniformed unions to the City. We look forward to further individual unit bargaining to address issues unique to the UFOA membership,” said Jake Lemonda, President of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association.

“The Sanitation Officers Association is proud to have signed this three-year economic agreement. We appreciate the efforts of Commissioner Campion and her team in reaching this fair deal, and also appreciate the leadership of Elias Husamudeen and Roy Richter in leading this coalition of 8 unions," said Joseph Mannion, President of the Sanitation Officers Association, Local 444.

“The agreement we reached today is a fair economic package. I believe working with the Coalition allowed us to reach the best deal we could have achieved," said Patrick Ferraiuolo, President  of the Correction Captains Association.

Fair Wages

Because the UOC covers eight separate unions whose contracts will expire at different intervals between 2021 and 2023, each contract will extend a period of three years from the end of the previous contract. Wage increases will constitute 7.95% over three years, on the following pattern:

2.25% on the first day of Year 1

2.50% on the first day of Year 2

3.00% on the first day of Year 3

As was the case in 2014, each individual union within the coalition will have an opportunity to bargain on issues specific to their bargaining unit, within the same overall economic framework.

The net cost of this settlement in the financial plan is approximately $152 million through Fiscal Year 2024. This settlement incorporates health savings from the agreement reached with the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC).

The terms of the agreement must be approved by each unions’ membership.