By Eileen Buckley
Buffalo, NY – Buffalo's top cop weighs in on efforts to get the wage freeze lifted for city police officers.
Buffalo Police Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson says he was actively involved in developing the proposal the City delivered to the control board asking to lift the wage freeze for police.
But Gipson did not offer details to what is contained in that wage freeze proposal. When Mayor Byron Brown released the package to the control board a couple of weeks ago, Buffalo Police Benevolent Association president Robert Megan was not pleased. He said from what he was able to review, it was not a good plan for cops.
Buffalo Police have been without a pay raise for three years. Commissioner Gipson says agrees Megan who feels officers have been cheated out of wage increases promised in their current contract.
The P-B-A is asking the courts to grant them the right to strike. But at a hearing last week, State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Mintz told attorneys for both sides to gather up more information in order for the case to move ahead.
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