NYC Firefighters To Garner 17 Percent Pay Raise Over Four Years

Oct. 27, 2005
This will be the first contract for city firefighters in three years

The city and firefighters reached tentative agreement Thursday on a new contract, making it the third uniformed services union to strike a deal with the city in a matter of months.

Firefighters have been working without a contract for three years.

The deal calls for firefighters to get a 17 percent raise over four years, with 13 percent of that being retroactive pay.

But in exchange the union, like others before it, has agreed to some givebacks. At the top of the list is a cut in pay for starting firefighters. The police, sanitation and teachers unions also agreed to lower salaries for their new hires earlier this year.

As with those other deals, the firefighters

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