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Council approves police command officers contract

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TOLEDO, Ohio -

The mayor has reached a contract deal with Toledo police command officers.  Their union approved a fact finder deal, yesterday, but now the focus moves to the firefighter and police patrolman's unions.

Several mayors have had trouble reaching deals with the police union.  That's led to layoffs and imposed concessions, and this year, just like in 2009, a fact finder will get involved.

A fact finder helped mediate a deal between the City and the Toledo Police Command Officers Association.

Wednesday, council approved a deal that will increase TPCOA wages 5-percent over the next 3-years but the group will lose pension pickups by 2014.

But police *patrol* officers believe that a pay hike for the command union means Toledo can afford a pay hike for patrolman.   Union president Dan Wagner told reporter Bill Hormann, today, "The City is far better off financially than it's leading people to believe."

TPPA, the Toledo Police Patrolman's Association, goes to fact finding February 28th.

Quite frankly, we don't believe the city's numbers, right now

The fire union, Local 92, agrees with the police union.  Fire union reps meet with a fact finder, Thursday.

Firefighters are staring at the same cuts the Toledo fire chief's union just agreed to which is an elimination of pension pickups after 3-years.  Firefighters say that means a 14-percent cut.

Dan Desmond, VP of Firefighter's Local 92 says, "(firefighters) think that with the concessions they're being asked to give, they don't feel appreciated."

That may be, but council and the mayor believe two unions have stepped up to help the city save money and the fire and police unions need to do so, as well.

Mayor Mike Bell (I-Toledo) told 13 ABC, Wednesday, "It's not about being against anybody; it's about where the economy is and how do we work inside of that."

The contract council approved, Wednesday, calls for elimination of pension pickup for police command officers by 20-14.  That's probably what the administration is offering both firefighters and police patrolman.

The fire union goes to fact finding, Thursday and could vote on a new deal next week.

But right now, approval is no slam dunk.

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