NEPBA LAWRENCE PD LOCAL 125 INKS NEW CONTRACT
The Lawrence Patrolman’s Association, Local 125 of the New England Benevolent Association would like to announce the
settlement of our contract for the years 2022- 2025 with the City of Lawrence and Mayor Brian A. De Peña.
This is not just one contract but culmination over the past 15 years of terrible wages The Lawrence Patrolmans Association has been through some tough times since 2009. We lost our education incentive due to budget cuts made under Governor Deval Patrick. Since then we also suffered losing 25 police officers due to layoffs in 2010 and 20 others retired at that time because they lost their education incentive. It took approximately 10 years to build up to our normal staffing numbers.
Over the past 15 years, the LPA has taken four, zero percent cost of living increases, which put us far behind…