{"id":529448,"date":"2010-04-15T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01347fe72110970c"},"modified":"2010-04-15T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T23:12:08","slug":"chicago-police-expect-to-find-out-raises-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529448","title":{"rendered":"Chicago police expect to find out raises Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 6:11 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>After going nearly three years without a contract, Chicago police officers expect to learn Friday how much of a raise they\u2019ll get when an arbitrator releases his decision.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Officials with both Mayor Richard Daley\u2019s administration and the Fraternal Order of Police said they expect to receive the decision by 8 a.m. Friday. Both sides said they plan to brief reporters later in the day.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Police have been working without a contract since the end of June 2007. The matter went to an independent arbitrator last year after negotiations broke down.<\/p>\n<p><\/br>Although the arbitration technically only applies to rank-and-file officers, lieutenants and captains will get the same raise because of clauses in their recently-approved contracts.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Police also are expected to get back pay as part of the decision. City Hall has set aside $70 million to cover the costs of the decision and a similar one expected for the city\u2019s firefighters, said Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, a government budget watchdog.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no guarantee that there\u2019s enough,\u201d Msall said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what the arbitration decision will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police got raises of about 4 percent a year as a result of an arbitration announced in late February 2005. The four-year contract stretched back to July 2003 and saw police union members chip in more to cover health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 6:11 p.m.After going nearly three years without a contract, Chicago police officers expect to learn Friday how much of a raise they\u2019ll get when an arbitrator releases his decision.Officials with both Mayor Richard Daley\u2019s administration and the Fraternal Order of Police said they expect to receive the decision by 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}