A Port Authority police union and the agency came to an agreement to deploy body cameras under a new labor contract.
The PBA and authority discussed implementation of body cameras for 18 months, said Kevin O’Toole, board chairman. AThe new 26-month contract with the 1,550 union police officers provides a total wage increase of six percent over the life of the contracts and a $3,000 yearly stipend for wearing the cameras, which officers are legally entitled to. PBA members ratified it on Jan.
The 26-month TWU contract with the unions 500 members also provides for a six percent raise over the life of the pact which has a retroactive start date of July 28, 2022, to Sept. 27, 2024.The PBA and TWU contracts are the first of 23 labor pacts that Cotton and O’Toole made a priority to settle when they were appointed in August 2017. The authority’s 23 unions had been working without new contracts when they arrived and the last of them, with a PATH rail union, was settled last October.
“The first round of agreements has now expired. These two are the first of a new round of negotiations,” Cotton said. “We’re continuing the process with other unions to get through all the contracts.”
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