Contract 2006

[jerseyshorecop]

I work for a small South Jersey Shore Municipal PD and am very active in the FOP and am currently serving on the contract committee. If any brothers and sisters out there have new contracts from 2004-2005 that they feel comfortable in sharing please send me a PM.

We had our first meeting last week....we're looking at a 4 yr contract within the range of 4% (state norm recently) no givebacks but they want us to look at different health insurance....but no Co-pay.

We also have an extended sick time section which they're really going after....this is something I've never seen in any modern contract....may result in us going to arbitration (which I'm told is now pretty dicey) because quite a few of the members have taken advantage of it and not repaid the hours.

Anybody from a Dept. that recently went to arbitration?

Thanks for any assistance. ;)

[PFL]

Avoid it if possible. Fighting sick time is not worth losing benefits over, which is what arbitrators are now doing to us. I believe that Hanover Twp in Morris just got hosed this way.

What kind of sick time are they trying to take from you?

[PO 221]

What big changes exactly are you looking to do from the old contract?

[Bill]

Go on the PERC web site. You can read all the arbitration awards for the last several years to compare. The average salary increase is 3.9% according to the PBA.

[jerseyshorecop]

Thanks for the info on the PERC website - it confirms what I've heard about the average being 4%. Our counterparts from the City are always consistant in trying to maintain the average. We haven't been using attorneys for the last few years so it's been generally cordial.

We don't want any change....the City wants us to give up the extended sick leave clause with provides for an addition full year of sick time loaned out by the city provided it's paid back from future leave....which means about seven members have exhausted their sick time then went into this special leave...problem is no one has paid it back which the City is partly to blame because of poor admin...This is a pretty unique situation which I haven't seen anywhere else in the state so it's hard to put a dollar value on it. They also want us to look at comparable medical plans to the medallion plan we currently have...but have already said they've not interested Yet in a Co-pay. We also still have Longevity.

our senior Patrolman top out around 80,000. with a couple of OT hawgs around 110,000 :)

[kevl8op]

use the search tool to search for any town you want. They should all have the contracts listed.

http://www.perc.state.nj.us/publicsectorcontracts.nsf/