Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that her administration agreed to a one-year contract extension with the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, reaching a deal that would offer modest raises to its roughly 1,600 members.
The extension includes a handful of changes to the union’s previous contract, including 2 percent raises for all officers and a requirement that all patrol officers wear name tags. The extension is retroactive from July 1 of this year and will expire at the end of June.
It is expected to cost the city $6.7 million, according to the mayor’s office.
Wu, who is running unopposed for a second term in Tuesday’s election, framed the additional identification requirement as a demonstration of the police department’s commitment to building trust with residents, particularly at a time when masked federal agents are conducting immigration enforcement in cities around the country.
The union voted to ratify the contract last week, according to city officials.
Boston police officers “call our city home, and don’t build trust with our community by hiding,” Wu said at a City Hall news conference. “Real public safety requires transparency, and knowing someone’s name makes a difference.”
The contract extension includes other adjustments, such as giving all BPPA officers free access to Boston Police Department gyms, allowing officers 30 minutes to exercise per shift, and increasing pay for officers in the police academy’s field training program. The extension also allows officers to sell 20 more days of earned sick time when they retire.
The city and union also agreed to some changes to the detail system, by shifting the clerical job of distributing and assigning overtime to civilians instead of patrol officers, and minimizing overlap between officers’ regular shifts and detail shifts.
Larry Calderone, president of the BPPA, praised the mayor and Boston Police Department Commissioner Michael Cox for their partnership. The union endorsed Wu in her reelection bid earlier this year, marking the first time it had supported a Boston mayor for reelection in more than 30 years.
“This is what collective bargaining should look like,” Calderone said at Monday’s news conference alongside Wu. “We share a similar vision, and that vision is making the department more professional, continuing to have them more respected in their community, and building that relationship with the people that we serve.”
Cox also celebrated the agreement as a win.
“My job is, as commissioner, to make sure that public safety is enhanced, public trust is enhanced, and the fact that professionalism within the department gets better each and every year,” Cox said. “This contract helps all of those things happen.”
The contract extension does not include any additional changes to the disciplinary system, which was a priority in the city’s negotiations with the union over its previous, five-year contract. The deal was reached in 2023, but was retroactive to the summer of 2020, when the union’s last contract expired.
That agreement barred officers accused of 30 serious crimes from appealing their dismissals through arbitration, which Wu had touted as a significant win for the city.
On Monday, she said the city prioritized preserving stability with this contract extension, citing uncertainty with federal funding.
“When it comes to public safety, there’s a lot of fear in our communities,” Wu said. “We collectively decided that we could trim some of the aspirations that each side had for what would go into a multi-year contract, and just focus on making sure that we would be able to have an active contract on the table, get it done, and then talk about the bigger picture in the months to come.”
The contract extension now goes to the City Council, which must vote to approve the funding for the agreement.
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