New York, NY – NYPD Unions Taking Action Against Bloomberg’s Crackdown on Parking Placards

New York, NY – The NYPD’s five uniformed unions have taken legal action against the Bloomberg administration’s crackdown on government-authorized parking placards.

The unions, which represent police officers, detectives, lieutenants and captains, contend the city was required to negotiate the new plan before yanking more than 20,000 permits.

On orders of Mayor Bloomberg, on May 1 the NYPD reduced its total number of placards from 64,587 to 43,113.
The unions’ complaint, filed with the Board of Collective Bargaining, seeks to have all the permits restored. As a result of the new policy, cops’ cars are now being towed and ticketed, the complaint states.
According to the unions, the reduction of free-parking perks “creates an economic hardship” and violates state labor law. The complaint, however, acknowledges that the union contracts do not address parking placards.

One labor source indicated the complaint was designed merely to prevent the city from removing more police parking permits next year.