Contact: Colleen Roche (212) 788-2958
Curt Ritter (212) 788-2971
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today announced that a tentative settlement was reached with the 5,500 member Detectives Endowment Association (DEA). Subject to ratification, the agreement will be retroactive to February 22, 1996 and will expire June 21, 2001. The DEA represents first, second and third grade detectives in the Police Department.
If ratified, the 64-month contract will provide a wage rate increase of 3 percent effective February 22, 1998, a 3 percent increase on June 22, 1999 and a 6 percent increase on May 22, 2000. It also provides for Welfare Fund increases, Longevity increases, and a lump sum payment to the Annuity Fund. There are no wage increases for the first twenty-four months of the contract. Contract language concerning the "48 hour rule," which grants detectives 48 hours before they can be interrogated, will be deleted. The agreement follows the uniformed pattern for this round of bargaining. The package was funded by monies set aside in the labor reserves.
"Today's agreement represents another step forward in the continuing history of cooperative labor relations between the parties," said Mayor Giuliani. "This most recent agreement with the Detectives Endowment Association reflects the City's commitment to fiscal prudence and the Union's commitment to ensuring fair treatment and compensation for its members. I would like to congratulate Deputy Mayor Randy Levine, Police Commissioner Howard Safir, and Labor Commissioner James F. Hanley and his staff at the Office of Labor Relations, on their hard work on this agreement, which allowed us to move into new areas previously thought unattainable by this Union."
The settlement is consistent with the pattern established in all earlier settlements with uniformed and civilian unions in this round of bargaining including the SBA, PBA, the UFOA, the UFA, COBA and USA, the Coalition of Municipal Unions and the UFT. It reflects the City's ability and desire to adequately compensate its uniformed force workers for the critical and vital services that they perform.
The terms of the agreement (consistent with the pattern established for this round of negotiations with the uniformed unions, the Coalition of Municipal Unions and UFT) provides for no wage increases for the first 24 month period of the agreement, and: