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The Anaheim City Council Tuesday approved labor contracts with the unions that represent the city’s rank-and-file employees and police managers.  

The contract with the city’s 566 general employees covers two years and includes a 4 percent raise, with employees getting a 2-percent bump immediately and another 2 percent in June 2017.

The contract with the city’s 25 police captains and lieutenants covers three years and includes a 7-percent salary increase. They will get a 2-percent raise immediately, 2 percent in June of 2017, and 3 percent in June of 2018.

Since 2012, the city’s agreements with employees’ unions have included similar salary increases.

Council members voted 4-0, with mayor Tom Tait absent.The agreements will cost the city $2.81 million between now and January 2018, according to the staff report.

Contact Thy Vo at tvo@voiceofoc.org or follow her on Twitter @thyanhvo.

Thy is a reporter covering the cities of Anaheim, Garden Grove, and Westminster as well as transportation issues and the courts. She’s the daughter of two Vietnamese refugees and grew up in Anaheim and...