The Common Council voted unanimously and without debate to approve the three-year pact with the Milwaukee Police Association.
Under the contract, some 1,700 rank-and-file police officers, detectives and forensic investigators will receive 3.6% across-the-board pay raises next year, plus an extra $575 a year for the roughly 1,Prada Bags,400 patrol officers.
In exchange, the union agreed its members would pay 12% of their health care costs and accept a retroactive two-year wage freeze for 2010 and 2011,louis vuitton purses, except for incorporating extra pay for employees with college degrees into their base pay rates.
The health care change will more than triple annual health insurance premiums for most single employees,haikee, from $240 to $779, and increase most family premiums from $480 a year to $1,228 to $2,455, depending on the number of adults and children in the household.
City negotiators considered the health care provision a key victory. Under Act 10, the state law that ended most collective bargaining for most public employees, state and local government workers covered by the state health care plan are required to pay 12% of their health care premiums. In July, the council voted to impose the same requirement on most city employees covered by the separate city health care plan, starting Jan,Prada handbags. 1.
But Act 10 allowed unions representing law enforcement officers and firefighters to keep their bargaining power. City officials with the firefighters and police commanders unions that traded the 12% health care contributions for pay raises.
Police association members rejected a similar pact in September, 52% to 48%, however. Negotiators agreed to several changes - notably adding the extra increase for patrol officers while lowering the across-the-board raise - before union members voted 54% to 46% for the on Dec. 8.
That vote became controversial when a dissident faction accused the union leadership of preventing numerous officers from voting on the deal. In letters to union leaders and city officials, the faction's leader, Officer Alvin Hannah, and four colleagues warned that they and others could file federal lawsuits against the union and the city if the contract takes effect.
Union President Mike Crivello has said that everyone who wanted to vote was given an opportunity to do so.
When a council committee considered the contract last week, a separate controversy arose over a against the city.
At issue in that suit is a 2011-'13 state budget provision that prohibited bargaining over health care plan design,douuo.com/gucci.html, even for law enforcement officers and firefighters.
In response, the council voted in July to require deductibles of $500 for single employees and $1,000 for families, with 10% co-pays up to an out-of-pocket maximum of $1,000 for singles and $2,000 for families, starting Jan. 1. Most city employees now have no deductibles, no co-pays and no out-of-pocket maximums,Prada Outlet.
The union challenged the changes in a September lawsuit,Gucci Outlet. Ald. Bob Bauman questioned how aldermen could approve the deal in light of that litigation, but he voted for the deal both in committee and on the council floor.
Also Tuesday,monster beats, aldermen revived a task force to of the Police Administration Building, including the options of moving or rebuilding it. That follows a council vote to reject 2012 funding for renovating the structure that houses police headquarters, the District 1 station and Municipal Court. Related articles:
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