Islip Town blue-collar workers get raise
The average Islip Town blue-collar worker’s salary will rise starting today to around $47,055 after the town board Tuesday night ratified a new contract.
The pay raise is the first for the town’s 370 blue-collar workers since 2007 when they broke with the Teamsters Local 237 and joined the United Public Service Employees Union. The workers had been without a contract since then.
Labor relations director Robert Finnegan said four more pay rises will follow at six-month intervals, increasing workers’ salary by 0.25 percent a year in 2012 and 2013. Salaries for the workers had averaged about $45,000.
Under the contract, which closely echoes the one agreed to by the town and Teamsters Local 237 for about 300 white-collar members, UPSEU members hired by the town after Jan. 1, 2010, will get fewer sick, personal and vacation days and will have to pay a portion of their health benefits.
Union members ratified the settlement in a 285-23 vote three weeks ago.
'I've never seen fire sitting on the water' Three Newsday photographers talk to NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland about covering the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996.
'I've never seen fire sitting on the water' Three Newsday photographers talk to NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland about covering the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996.
