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The New London Police Union and the City of New London have attended a labor board hearing this week after the union filed a complaint about a lack of promotions within the city’s police department.
The union said a captain’s vacancy was left open for more than a year and claim talks have stalled over reorganization.
New London Mayor Mike Passero said he is disappointed it’s come to this.
“The administration still and always has strongly supports our police department, our officers. And our door is always open as the union knows to restructure operations to become more efficient and better serve the needs of our city,” Passero said.
New London Police Sgt. Cornelius Rodgers, whose claims of racial discrimination at the police department have led to an outside investigation, now alleges he is inappropriately being passed over for upcoming promotions.
Rodgers filed two recent grievances with the city and has a new complaint with the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities in which he claims, in part, that the police department and union retaliated against him for a previous complaint and took him out of the running for a promotion to lieutenant.
“The NLPD and union are conspiring to assert a wrong interpretation of the union contract to drop my ranking and remove my status,” Rodgers contends in a CHRO complaint.