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Wage increases of up to $4.75, the addition of Good Friday as a paid holiday, and no continued health insurance at no additional cost are among the improvements won in a new three-year contract for Allegheny Regional Joint Board members employed by the Borough of Pennsylvania…
Street, park, and sanitation department workers won a new paid holiday, Juneteenth, commemorating June 19, 1865, when the last slaves in the U.S. were freed. Members will see a 3 percent wage increase in the first year of the contract, and there will be wage re-openers in each of the remaining years of the agreement. The new agreement also includes a 25 cent per hour increase for employees with a CDL, and improvements in seniority, holidays, and vacation language, and it protects the employees’ union health insurance coverage for the life of the pact. The Local 512 members maintain the city’s streets and parks, and pick up trash in the Connersville. The Union's Bargaining Committee was Christopher Geise, Melody Steele and Peter Shonfeld. They were assisted by Indiana Joint Board President Eric Schwartz.
RWDSU Local 108 members in New Jersey who work as bus drivers for Tri-State Transportation have ratified a new three-year contract. “This contract recognizes that private sector bus drivers are professionals, with significant wage increases and other improvements,” said Local 108 President Charles N. Hall, Jr….
The first union contract for parking enforcement officers in Morristown, New Jersey, bring employees excellent benefits including a dental plan, three new paid holidays including MLK Day, Good Friday, and the Day after Thanksgiving, and three additional personal days.
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