CEA Equals PBA 2.25% 'Added Raise' Without Slashing Salary Scale

The Captains Endowment Association Dec. 31 announced revisions to its tentative contract that allowed the union to get the 2.25-percent raise obtained by the Police Benevolent Association in the last round of bargaining on top of the 7.95-percent pay hike it agreed to 13 days earlier as part of a coalition of eight uniformed unions.

It was able to get that extra increase, which will come in the form of two differentials that are pensionable but not rolled into base salaries, improve first- and second-year salary steps for Captains effective Nov. 1, 2020, and gain health-and-welfare-fund boosts for both active and retired members through several relatively minor concessions. They included delaying a third-year pay raise by four months and extending the length of the pact from 36 to 39 months.