The leadership of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, in the wake of the surprising rejection of a tentative contract deal in late March, has agreed to new terms with Labor Commissioner Renee Campion in which the cost remains the same but some money was moved around to reflect the rank and file's immediate concerns in the midst of a health crisis.
And so a $3-million city outlay to create a fund to further members' education was forsaken to add the same amount to the union's health-and-welfare fund, with another $450,000 thrown in for that fund at the end of the three-year contract. And a $104-per-member annuity benefit was knocked out in order to speed payment of a second-year raise by three months, and in the process generate some additional retroactive pay.
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