ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the largest union representing workers in New York's executive branch reached a contract agreement that protects the union's members from administration plans for cost-saving layoffs, both sides announced Wednesday.
The Civil Service Employees Association and Cuomo said the five-year agreement includes a three-year wage freeze for the 66,000 workers represented by CSEA, but provides employees with lump-sum "retention payments" of $775 in 2013 and $225 in 2014 and 2-percent pay increases in 2014 and 2015.
It also calls for workers to take nine unpaid days off split between the 2011 and 2012 fiscal years and to pay for a larger share of their health care coverage. Salary for four of the furlough days would be repaid to workers at the end of the contract.
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