State, Labor Union Reach Tentative Deal
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ALBANY — State officials say they’ve reached a tentative labor contract with the second-largest state workers union.
Governor Spitzer announced a four-year agreement yesterday with the Public Employees Federation, which must now be ratified by union members.
PEF represents about 58,000 professional, scientific, and technical state employees.
The contact provides a 3% raise retroactive to April 2007, 3% raises for this year and in 2009, with a 4% raise for 2010.
It also calls for increasing location pay for employees in the New York metropolitan area.
The largest state workers’ union — the Civil Service Employees Association — ratified a similar contract last month.
