WILTON – Selectmen voted unanimously to approve a three-year union contract for six town employees after meeting in executive session Tuesday night.
Town office workers and employees of the water and sewer department will receive a 2 percent pay increase for each of the next three years, Town Manager Peter Nielsen said Wednesday. The bargaining unit’s contract expired at the end of 2005. By contrast, the town’s police force has been working since the end of June without a contract.
Selectmen, the town manager and police union representatives will meet Friday morning in an executive mediation session to try to hammer out a deal. Because of the pending union negotiations, Nielsen could not elaborate on the issues holding up the contract. The last contract with the police department was signed before it expired, Nielsen said.
“I’m hopeful we can work it out Friday,” he added.
Calls to officer Robert Cole, the police department’s union representative, were not returned Wednesday, but Officer Terry Warren was under the impression that a tentative agreement had been reached. Everything had been agreed upon except one “nonmonetary thing,” he said Wednesday.
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