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 832 new local government and school district employment contracts on SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s transparency website, are 131 Superintendent contracts, 107 public school teacher association contracts, 72 police contracts, and 10 firefighter contracts.
Among the public authorities, the list includes updated contracts between the MTA and its various bargaining units.
Broken down by region, the contracts are distributed as follows:
- Capital Region: 91+ contracts including Bethlehem teachers and Colonie police;
- Central New York: 80+ contracts including teachers in Oswego City School District and the Syracuse police and fire;
- Finger Lakes: 91+ contracts including Rochester City teachers and Ontario County police;
- Long Island: 130+ contracts including Sewanhaka teachers and Quogue village police;
- Mid-Hudson: 156+ contracts including Rockland and Sullivan BOCES teachers, and police in City of White Plains;
- Mohawk Valley: 49+ contracts including the Schoharie teachers and Amsterdam police;
- North Country: 62+ contracts including Massena teachers and Lake Placid village police;
- Southern Tier: 76+ contracts including the Johnson city teachers and Tompkins County police; and
- Western New York: 82+ contracts including Williamsville teachers and Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police.
More than 18,000 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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