Bargaining Update

Camden City CWA Members Win Two Major Contracts

On the eve of a vote to authorize a strike, workers in the City of Camden won two landmark contracts last Tuesday.

On the eve of a vote to authorize a strike, workers in the City of Camden won two landmark contracts last Tuesday. The collective bargaining agreements covering 230 workers in Camden, N.J. provide 2.5% salary increases every year of the four-year deal. All of the workers will see significant salary increases, particularly newer, lower-paid employees who were hired in the last seven years and who have not been eligible for step increases.

The agreements are the result of more than a year of negotiating and many months of hard work and solidarity. CWA members had face-to-face organizing conversations with every member to build support, and held a press conference and rally.

"Solidarity and workers' willingness to threaten a work stoppage got this deal done," said Garren Steiner, President of CWA Local 1014.
 
Read more about the contract fight here.