Union officials make $211M deal to settle labor contract for school cleaners
Source: NY Daily News
EXCLUSIVE: Under the terms of the nine-year agreement reached Wednesday, the city will give raises of 18% and bonuses of $1,000 to roughly 4,200 people who clean, make repairs and do odd jobs in public schools.
BY BEN CHAPMAN
Union officials have made a $211.1 million deal to settle another outstanding labor contract — this time for cleaners and maintenance workers in the city schools.
Under the terms of the nine-year agreement reached Wednesday, the city will give raises of 18% and bonuses of $1,000 to roughly 4,200 people who clean, make repairs and do odd jobs in public schools.
City officials said the total price of the agreement will be offset by roughly $21 million in savings to health-care costs. So the true cost of the deal will be about $190.2 million. The pact follows the pattern set by the mammoth $5.5 billion public school teachers contract settled in June. City officials said it will be covered by the current budget. Union leaders hailed the agreement as a win for hourly school workers who need the raises just to get by.
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Basilio Sobers, who works as a handyman at Public School 268 in Queens, said the bump in pay will make a difference.
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