BY JENNIFER FERMINO NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, December 31, 2015, 12:37 PM
The city has settled its contract dispute with the union repping 7,000 correction officers, the last of the uniformed work force to be operating on an expired pact, the de Blasio administration said.
The tentative deal with the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association — which must still be ratified by its members — brings the total number of city contracts settled up to 94%.
None were settled when Mayor de Blasio took office two years ago.
The more than seven-year contract follows the same pattern established with the city’s other uniformed workers, and includes 11% raises that begin retroactively from Nov. 1, 2011.
The pacts expire on Feb. 28, 2019.
“This contract agreement provides the fair wages they deserve, while protecting New York City's taxpayers," de Blasio said in a statement announcing the deal.
COBA president Norman Seabrook called it a “major accomplishment” for the union.
The new contract also created a review process to address disciplinary issues.
De Blasio has made reforming the city’s troubled prison system — which includes the notoriously violent Rikers’ Island — one of his top priorities.
The cost of the contract is $364.7 million through 2019, which the city says is offset by $117.8 million in projected health care and other savings agreed to under the deal.
That will bring the total cost of the contract down to $246.9 million, according to City Hall.
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