Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settlement giving the police a 6% wage boost retroactive to Sept. 1 this year. That would bring the base pay of patrolmen to $17,458 (plus a cost-of-living hike). In exchange the P.B.A. would agree to drop its court suit. But the P.B.A. delegates rejected the pact, and later several thousand off-duty police, some hiding behind false noses, marched on city hall. That left the city facing not only the threat of more demonstrations and rowdyism, but that gravest of concerns: some form of police strike...
...contract settlement, while not exactly what the workers had originally demanded, nonetheless represents a marked improvement over the previous pact, and a victory for workers who last year took the University to task for such abuses as failing to list available kitchen jobs and discrimination against minority workers...
Among the most significant benefits included under the new pact is a provision requiring management to post all available job openings well in advance, as well as a clause requiring the presence of a union representative at all workers' disciplinary hearings...
...ratification of the new pact follows more than two months of on-and-off negotiations, which culminated in the drafting of the final contract proposal two weeks...
...contract gives workers a 25-cent per hour pay increase retroactive to June 22, and a total 50-cent per hour boost over the two-year life of the pact...