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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gerry M. Shea, staff director of Local 880 of the Massachusetts Hospital Workers Union, which represents the plan's 220 employees, said yesterday the union believes it could have held out for a better contract, but did not want to have to strike the facilities...
...year contract grants the workers a 6.8 per cent general increase this year and a further 7.5 per cent increase in 1979, together with benefits that will boost the entire union benefits package by almost 25 per cent over its current level. The pact, which replaces one that expired on September 30, also grants the workers four weeks of paid vacation after five years...
Shea said the union, which had conducted an informational picketing campaign since the old contract expired, wanted a package that would have given them the same vacation benefits as the plan's registered nurses...
...better contract we would be in a strike situation," Shea said...
Under the new contract, employees who are hired by the plan next year will begin with salaries of about $3.75 per hour...