Bill de Blasio has reached a cde Blasio Reaches Contract Agreement With Sanitation Workers
Ross Barkan
Mayor Bill de Blasio has reached a contract agreement with the union representing rank-and-file sanitation workers, bringing almost 80 percent of the municipal workforce under contract.
Mr. de Blasio announced the agreement at City Hall, telling reporters that he did not anticipate resolving so many expired contracts in less than two years. When Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, took office in 2014, all of the city’s unions were without contracts after failing to come agreements with the Bloomberg administration.
“This union, like so many others, went for years without a contract. It did not stop them from taking on every challenge, it did not stop them from working harder–it just wasn’t fair,” Mr. de Blasio said. “It’s not the way people should be treated.”
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