N.Y. City: Two More Tentative Labor Deals

New York City has reached tentative seven-year, four-month contract agreements with Service Employees International Union Local 300 and the United Probation Officers Association, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Aug. 22, marking two more settlements with employees who have worked under expired contracts for years.

The combined net cost for the city is $18.7 above the city's fiscal 2014-2018 financial plan, with unspecified health-care savings projected to reduce the original cost from $32.5 million, de Blasio said in a statement.

More than 60% percent of the city's workforce has reached contract agreements or tentative contract agreements, according to the mayor.

The unions' membership must ratify the deals.

De Blasio said the their pattern is consistent with the City's now-ratified contracts with the United Federation of Teachers, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, New York State Nurses Association and District Council 37, and requires no new funding over previous budgetary projections.

The contract with Local 300 would run, retroactively, from Feb. 23, 2011, to June 22, 2018. The contract with UPOA, for the same period, would extend from Dec. 28, 2009, to April 27, 2017.

The city and the Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella organization serving city workers, worked out the health-care savings.

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