Members of New York state’s largest public-sector labor union have approved a five-year labor agreement with raises and benefits, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The contracts with four\u00a0Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) bargaining units include annual raises of 4.5%, 4%, 3.5%, 3% and 3%\u00a0from April 2 of this year through April 1, 2031, the governor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The agreements, which cover more than 55,000 state employees, also include “boosts to location pay and several other unit-specific payments,” 20 additional hours of paid pre-natal leave, an increase in the sick leave accumulation cap and the elimination of of certain health insurance co-pays, Hochul said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day, dedicated CSEA members perform essential work to keep New York moving, and these agreements recognize those efforts while also serving as a fair deal for New York\u2019s taxpayers,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n
CSEA President Mary E. Sullivan thanked the governor “for working with CSEA to reach an agreement that reflects the value of our members and the vital services they provide.”<\/p>\n
The state’s prior agreement with CSEA included 2% raises for the first two years and 3% for the remaining three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of New York state’s largest public-sector labor union have approved a five-year labor agreement with raises and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,380],"class_list":["post-315368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}