New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and the police lieutenants union announced an innovative contract settlement yesterday that calls for newly promoted lieutenants to work 13 extra days a year and for some senior lieutenants to work 12-hour shifts but far fewer days. In addition, the 1,650 police lieutenants will receive raises totaling more than 17 percent over 50 months, and for the first time the city will contribute to unionized workers' retirement accounts ? an innovation that other municipal unions will surely want to copy.
See "City and Police Lieutenants Reach Contract Settlement", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, July 6, 2006