FDNY union and City Hall agree on tentative 7-year contract
BY REUVEN BLAU
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, August 6, 2015, 3:24 PM
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JOE MARINO/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSSteve Cassidy, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Union, addresses the FDNY Probationary Graduating class of 2015. The union representing has reached a tentative seven-year deal with the de Blasio administration.
The union representing 7,000 city firefighters has reached a tentative seven-year deal with the de Blasio administration.
The proposed accord with the Uniformed Firefighters Association will run retroactively from Aug. 1, 2010, until July 31, 2017, according to a union source. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Under the tentative accord, City Hall has also agreed to a deal with the union to help restore disability benefits for newly hired firefighters seriously injured on the job. The two sides had been sparring over the issue since Mayor de Blasio was elected.
Currently, the city's uniformed workers who were hired and on the payroll before 2009 have far more financial security if they are injured on the job. Newer hires get about $10,000 annually.
Albany lawmakers have final say over the disability matter.
But de Blasio has agreed to support the undisclosed plan, which will likely be enough to get it passed, labor insiders said.
The mayor and union president Steve Cassidy plan to announce the details of the contract at a press conference at City Hall Thursday afternoon, the union source said.
"They worked out the deal early Thursday morning," the source added.
The agreement, first reported by NY1, comes a week before final briefs are expected to be filed in the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association binding arbitration case.
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