Since Wu took office, labor contracts have provided significant wage increases for some of the city’s lowest paid employees in a mutual win for the mayor and some unions.
The contract, which includes a 10.6 percent pay increase for firefighters, will be submitted to the City Council for approval and requires a $27.4 million appropriation to cover the pay increases, according to Mayor Michelle Wu’s office.
Since her campaign, Mayor Michelle Wu placed a heavy focus on public safety contracts as a vehicle to deliver reform, but increasingly the state’s labor committee is getting involved at the unions’ requests.
John Earley, a 25-year veteran who made more than $211,000 last year, was arrested Sunday and charged with driving under the influence. In 2015, he was involved in an accident and reportedly had been drinking.
Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration will lift the COVID vaccine mandate for all city employees on May 11, a decision that comes about a month after the state’s top court ruled in favor of Boston having this pandemic-era policy in place.