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14-month deal with city ratified
Payout set for early December

October 2006

Local 1180 members voted overwhelmingly to ratify the new 14-month contract with the City of New York and the Health and Hospitals Corporation that features a 3.4 percent raise, a hike in the 5-year experience differential from $1,770 to $1,830, and an extra $100 a year per member paid by the City into the union’s benefits fund.

The final tally was 3,816 votes in favor of ratification, 77 votes against.

The union's Election Committee completed the tally in the early morning hours of October 19. The committee received 4,135 ballots from members. Of those, 225 ballots were declared ineligible (they came from former members or agency fee payers who never filled out a card to join the union) and 17 ballots were void. The committee accepted walk-in ballots as well as ballots without a signature as long as they came from members in good standing.

Local 1180 officers immediately contacted the City to report the ratification vote and request concrete information about a pay-out date for the raise, which is retroactive to July 1, 2005. According to City officials, the 3.4 percent raise plus the retroactive pay will be reflected in paychecks on December 1, 2006 for members who work at City agencies, the Department of Education, or the Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC); on December 7 for members who work at the New York City Housing Authority.

The 14-month deal covers the period July 1, 2005 through September 5, 2006. It does not cover any titles that the union did not yet represent as of June 30, 2005, including Administrative Job Opportunity Specialists at the Human Resources Administration and Coordinating Managers at HHC, who already received a raise for the 2005-2006 year.

Negotiations began October 19 between the City and the municipal bargaining coalition, of which Local 1180 is a part, on a new multi-year contract that will cover all civil servants who are members of the union. Local 1180 president Arthur Cheliotes will represent the union at the bargaining table.

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