Police Officers Association of Michigan accepts pay freeze for 2011-12 fiscal year

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The University and the Police Officers Association of Michigan have reached an agreement for the POAM’s contract which expires June 30.

POAM’s 15 members at CMU will take a pay freeze for the 2011-12 fiscal year and increase its health benefit contributions from 8 percent to 9 percent the first year of the contract. For the second and third year of its contract, adjustments made will match adjustments to professional and administrative employees.

“The Police Officers Association of Michigan is the seventh CMU employee group to accept a wage freeze,” the university said in the release.

The university did not specify if the statement was historical or if it was for the fiscal year beginning July 1; no decision has been announced on professional and administrative, senior officer, and public broadcasting employees, and the other groups mentioned, the Union of Teaching Faculty and Graduate Student Union, were both granted pay increases for the upcoming fiscal year.

The Union of Teaching Faculty, since unionized, has not seen a pay freeze. In 2010-11, the group was not unionized and was given a pay freeze.