Following successful talks with the city, and averting what could have been a highly consequential strike for snow removal in the midst of winter, Teamsters 507 reached a contract bargaining agreement on Saturday.
The deal, which affects hundreds of city workers, includes 103 seasonal workers and 177 full-timers in waste management, employees in the parks division, parking enforcement workers and those in animal control. More than 70 percent of seasonal workers voted in favor of the contract, along with 83 percent of full-time unionized workers.
A large swath of the unionized Teamsters are snow plowers—many whom are on the city's payroll—who will see about a 16-percent raise in their base pay over the next three years, from the current $19.65/hour to about $23/hour. It's one of the highest wage increases to come from Saturday's agreement.
Dan Chavez, a reporting secretary with Teamsters 507, said that the pandemic's impact on essential workers—pretty much the entirety of 507—was a key factor in strategizing for wage hikes since the previous talks in 2020.
"Well, the last contract was when COVID hit,so we had deal with that being a factor in negotiations," Chavez told Scene. "But with city coming out of COVID, [this] is the first time we're able to take a good stab at the contract—and we came out very successful."
Roughly three months before the win, as talks warning about a strike wafted around City Hall, some 50 union members protested at 601 Lakeside Avenue, pressuring...
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