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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Thursday, January 11, 2001

Release # 010-01

 
Contact: Sunny Mindel / Michael Anton (212) 788-2958




MAYOR GIULIANI ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH MUNICIPAL LABOR COMMITTEE ON HEALTH BENEFITS AFFECTING CITY WORKFORCE


Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today announced that the Administration has reached agreement with the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC) that will achieve significant savings to the City while providing improved health and other benefits to all City workers. This agreement marks the first time that such benefits have been addressed in the initial phase of the collective bargaining process, and also the first time that such benefit issues have been resolved for all unions simultaneously.

"This historic agreement is a major step toward new contracts for all City unions," Mayor Giuliani said. "Now that the important task of resolving health benefits has been accomplished for all unions, the City is free to bargain individually with the various unions on their contracts. I want to thank Deputy Mayor Bob Harding and Labor Commissioner Jim Hanley for the hard work in reaching this deal, and also staff at the Office of Labor Relations and the Office of Management and Budget. I also want to thank Randi Weingarten, Chair of the MLC; MLC Secretary Lee Saunders; Norman Seabrook, Chair of the Uniformed Forces Coalitions; and all the members of the Committee for working with the City to get this deal concluded."

The modifications to City employee contracts agreed to include:

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