NEGOTIATIONS REPORT # 12
Summary of Tentative Agreement
MONDAY JULY 26, 2010
201 SECURES A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
After 4 sessions with a Federal Mediator and 83 days of a Contract extension, Local 201 finally reached a tentative settlement with Veolia Water, N.A for a new 3 year Collective Bargaining Agreement. The agreement was reached at 4:30PM Friday July 23 in Boston. This was an extremely tough negotiation under terrible economic conditions. However, with the strong support of Veolia 201 members as well as political, community and area Union support; your negotiating committee was able to secure a new settlement package to recommend to you. There were some items in the package we did not like but we think the positives far outweigh the negatives.The economic part of the package is really solid, considering the state of the economy and the historic wage increases that Local 201 has secured at the plant since the first contract in 1994, stabilizing turnover at the facility.
Here is a Summary of the main points of the proposed Contract.
