First Contract for NYC Maintenance Workers (11/13/07)

RWDSU Local 670 members employed by Baxter Street Development Company at a new office building in New York City have ratified their first union contract. The contract includes a competitive starting salary, 10 percent pay raises for each of the following years of the agreement, a $1.50 per hour wage hike retroactive to January 2007, time-and-a-half for overtime, a pension and an annuity, full medical coverage for themselves and their immediate family, paid holidays and sick days, and job security. “Until we joined the union,” said worker Haiffe Wile, “we didn’t have the type of pay, benefits or job security that we felt we deserved. Our first union contract has taken care of that.”