[Publib] DC 37 Settlement

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The New York Times reports  that the City of New York has come  to terms with 
its largest union, District Council 37, which also contains New  York Public 
Library’s Library Guild, Local 1930.  The tentative contract will run for 32  
months, gives members ten percent raises and ends the requirement that they 
live  in the city, a rule that had hampered efforts to hire library  workers. 
I have no details on the settlement terms for library workers; according  to 
the Times,  
“The agreement,  which would be retroactive to July 1,  2005, calls for a 
raise of 3.15 percent for the first year. It  provides for a 2 percent raise this 
Aug. 1 for six months and then a 4 percent  increase on Feb. 1. The agreement 
would expire on March 2, 2008. With these raises and other supplements,  
union officials said the deal provided a total pay increase of 10 percent.  Since 
1987, the city has required that  workers in District Council 37 live in the 
city, a rule that has drawn  increasing complaints in light of the city’s 
fast-rising housing costs. Under  the deal, the union’s 120,000 members will also 
be allowed to live in  Nassau,  Suffolk,  Westchester,  Rockland,  Orange and  
Putnam  Counties. They will still pay the  city income tax, under the 
agreement.  The union’s leaders had also pushed for  the right for its members to live 
in New  Jersey as well, but that bid apparently failed, the  union leaders 
said.”  
Any information  concerning Local 1930 would be appreciated. 
Michael  McGrorty
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