REVERE-Police unions have agreed to contracts authorizing random drug testing, giving the chief oversight on detail assignments and providing $295,000 in raises through 2010.
Some of the money for raises has been set aside in the city budget but Superior Officers’ Association President James Guido acknowledged Mayor Thomas Ambrosino may call unions back to the bargaining table to revisit raises if “things get bad.”
An Ambrosino letter to the City Council hinted that call could come sooner or later.
“I expect that, in the very near future, I will be engaging each of the municipal unions in discussions involving the deferral of future benefits for the purpose of avoiding significant reductions in personnel.”
Ambrosino earlier this month said he is bracing for reductions next July, possibly as early as January, in state money to the city.
In his letter, Ambrosino explained random testing provisions in the Revere Police Employees’ Association and Revere Police Superior Officers’ Associations pacts are tied to contractual education benefits. Under a state law called the Quinn Bill, police are paid to advance their educations.
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