Contract Up for Vote

The contract passed out of committee Tuesday. It goes to the full City Council tomorrow:

• The City Council is poised to approve a new Chicago Police Department contract granting officers 2 percent average yearly raises after a committee recommended its passage without dissent today.

  Police officers also will be subject to random alcohol testing starting in 2012 and have to submit to drug and alcohol tests if they fire their weapons on or off duty under the pact the council's Police and Finance committees recommended.
  
  Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue said today his members remain frustrated that an arbitrator didn't award them larger salary increases, but said he thinks they see it as fair given the weak economy.

We're pretty sure most coppers just wanted either what the teachers got (4%) or what the aldercreatures got (6%) or what the aldercreatures staff got (5%). It didn't happen.

Three years of waiting to get crumbs though - that has to stop.