New York’s most comprehensive online database of state and local government union contracts has been updated with the latest collective bargaining agreements for local teachers, police, firefighters, libraries, and public authorities.
Among the 1,006 new local government and school district public employee union and employment contracts on SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s transparency website, are 126 public school teacher association contracts, 124 Superintendent contracts, 95 police contracts, and 18 firefighter contracts.
Among the public authorities, the list includes 11 updated contracts between the MTA and its various bargaining units.
Broken down by region, the contracts are distributed as follows:
- Capital Region: 88+ contracts including North Colonie teachers and Saratoga Springs police and fire;
- Central New York: 49+ contracts including teachers in Syracuse City School District and the Cayuga County police;
- Finger Lakes: 87+ contracts including Pittsford teachers and Wayne County Deputy Sheriffs;
- Long Island: 149+ contracts including Freeport teachers and Long Beach City Police;
- Mid-Hudson: 140+ contracts including Poughkeepsie teaches, and police in Dutchess and Orange counties;
- Mohawk Valley: 40+ contracts including the New Hartford teachers and Gloversville fire;
- North Country: 76+ contracts including the cities of Plattsburgh and Watertown police;
- Southern Tier: 91+ contracts including the Binghamton teachers and Ithaca fire; and
- Western New York: 86+ contracts including Erie 1 and 2 BOCES teachers and Erie county police.
More than 17,000 current and expired public-sector union and school superintendent employment contracts are now searchable on SeeThroughNY’s contract database, the most comprehensive in the state.
The Empire Center, based in Albany, is an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit think tank dedicated to promoting policies to make New York a better place to live, work and raise a family.
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