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CSEA, NY state reach deal on new labor contract

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.

By CHRIS CAROLA, Associated Press | Updated on June 22, 2011

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.

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