Providence Committee on Finance approves pay raises, increased pension contributions for police union

Nancy Lavin

03/15/2021

THE PROVIDENCE CITY COUNCIL Committee on Finance recently approved a contract with the Providence police union that would give pay raises and increase officers’ contributions to the city pension fund through 2022.

PROVIDENCE – City police union officers would see their paychecks increase but also contribute more to the city’s pension funded under the contract between the city and the Fraternal Order of Police Union Lodge No. 3 approved by the City Council’s Committee on Finance on March 9. The four-year contract calls for annual wage hikes…