New York City’s police union president recently admitted to stalking Mayor Bill de Blasio in order to keep his attention on contract negotiations.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, which represents 23,800 New York City police officers, told a Sunday morning radio program that his members went through a lot of work to get a new contract done with the city.
“We went out, we followed the mayor, we followed him to his favorite coffee haunt in Brooklyn, we went to his gym, the YMCA in Park Slope to get him to focus on the contract, and I think it was effective,” Lynch told John Catsimatidis on his Sunday morning radio program, “CATS Roundtable.“
“I gotta tell ya, it was a lot of work by a lot of people to get it done, especially by our members who suffered through, not having a current contract,” Lynch said. The union head is referring to a new contract tentatively agreed upon by union leaders and the city.
The new contract gives members a retroactive pay raise, and requires all officers to wear body cameras by 2019. The new contract expires in a few months, as the contract was signed for the past five years, when members were working without a contract.
“We got so much support from the people of Park Slope [New York community] to help us and all the other place that we showed up,” the union president said in reference to the department’s public feud with the city over a new contract.
The police union protested outside the Mayor’s gym in September after learning that the Mayor spent significant time at the YMCA in Park Slope. (RELATED: Police Union Blasts Mayor de Blasio)
Lynch explained that the department’s mission was always to “get our police officers paid like professionals, a market rate of pay.”
“This contract will move us towards that mission, but it doesn’t get us there yet, so we’ll be back out, we plan to get back to the table, to negotiate with City Hall to finally solve this problem into the future,” Lynch explained.
Lynch predicts that the members will unanimously ratify the contract.
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