De Blasio Cuts Contract Deal With NYCHA Teamsters Union for Raises, Cost Cuts
Will Bredderman
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today he had reached a new contract deal with the Teamsters local representing more than half of the New York City Housing Authority’s workforce—and indicated that the union would cooperate in helping the financially strapped authority cut costs by kicking in more for health care and reviewing new opportunities to slash public expenses.
Mr. de Blasio and Gregory Floyd, president of Teamsters Local 237, announced a preliminary deal—pending a union vote—that would grant 5,500 workers their first new contract since 2008 and 10 percent in retroactive and prospective raise over the next seven and a half years. The deal also calls for the union’s members to pay an additional $89.7 million into their health care fund and to form a “joint Labor-Management Committee” that will look into other potential money-saving measures, including elimination of outside contracting for some work.
Read more at http://observer.com/2015/05/de-blasio-cuts-contract-deal-with-nycha-teamsters-union-for-raises-cost-cuts/#ixzz3abokVmTn
