Boston Convention Center Workers Overwhelmingly Endorse New Agreement
Labor Desk
April 22, 2006
Wage, Benefit Increases for 500 Members of Local 82.
Last week, a strong majority of workers at the Boston Convention Center ratified a new three-year contract. Negotiated by Local 82 in Boston, the agreement raises wages and benefits for approximately 500 workers at the convention center.
This is a great contract, one of the best we?ve negotiated,? said John Perry, Trade Show Division Director and Local 82 President. ?The contract improves the things that most matter to Local 82 members: wages, health care and pensions.?
Retroactive to April 1, 2006, the new contract improves wages and benefits by $5.67 an hour over its three-year term. The wage and benefit improvements include a $1 hourly wage increase each year, plus hourly health and welfare and pension plans increases of 82 cents, 89 cents and 97 cents during the first, second and third years.
The contract also improves vacation language and secures an additional shop steward to help represent the workers? interests at the workplace. The workers? eight-hour schedules changed from beginning exclusively at 8 a.m. to beginning between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Local 82 members perform all work, except electrical, at the convention center. The bargaining unit includes truck drivers, forklift drivers, rigging workers, warehouse workers, set-up workers and general laborers.
"We were successful in securing a contract we could be proud of,? Perry said. ?We gave nothing back and strengthened workers? positions everywhere.?
Last week, a strong majority of workers at the Boston Convention Center ratified a new three-year contract. Negotiated by Local 82 in Boston, the agreement raises wages and benefits for approximately 500 workers at the convention center.
This is a great contract, one of the best we?ve negotiated,? said John Perry, Trade Show Division Director and Local 82 President. ?The contract improves the things that most matter to Local 82 members: wages, health care and pensions.?
Retroactive to April 1, 2006, the new contract improves wages and benefits by $5.67 an hour over its three-year term. The wage and benefit improvements include a $1 hourly wage increase each year, plus hourly health and welfare and pension plans increases of 82 cents, 89 cents and 97 cents during the first, second and third years.
The contract also improves vacation language and secures an additional shop steward to help represent the workers? interests at the workplace. The workers? eight-hour schedules changed from beginning exclusively at 8 a.m. to beginning between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Local 82 members perform all work, except electrical, at the convention center. The bargaining unit includes truck drivers, forklift drivers, rigging workers, warehouse workers, set-up workers and general laborers.
"We were successful in securing a contract we could be proud of,? Perry said. ?We gave nothing back and strengthened workers? positions everywhere.?
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