Sanitation workers have ratified a 50-month deal that will bring them raises of nearly 19 percent over the life of the agreement. Of the 3,124 members of Teamsters Local 831, the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association, 2,712, or 87 percent, approved the deal in voting last week, with 451 voting no.
Although the union’s longtime president, Harry Nespoli, expressed some disappointment that more of the union’s roughly 7,000 members did not cast a ballot, he nonetheless expressed satisfaction with the deal’s terms.
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