The making of a deal: How San Antonio officials, police union shaped new contract in roughly a year
reached an agreement on a new labor contract
The proposed 140-page agreement — which strengthens disciplinary measures for officers accused of misconduct and includes a significant wage increase — needs to be voted on by the union’s members, with 51 percent required for approval. The City Council must also approve it.Sgt. Christopher Lutton, head of the union’s negotiating team, expects its roughly 2,300 members to vote on the contract in April. Villagómez hopes the City Council will vote on it by summer.
“A lot of credit goes to the association and the membership,” Villagómez said. “I think they showed up with the intent of negotiating in good faith.” Since well before the last agreement expired, Sculley had been warning that the city could face financial hardships if it didn’t rein in spending on health care for police officers and firefighters.
Over two years, the two sides traded countless proposals. They seemed near a deal in fall 2015 after reaching a consensus on salary and health care issues, but things fell apart after the city insisted on eliminating the contract’s evergreen clause. After Floyd’s death, some community activists — locally and nationally — turned their attention to what they described as the overwhelming influence of police unions and how to rein that in.
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