CWA Local 1180-Bird Union Unanimously Ratifies First Contract with Audubon

After more than two years of hard bargaining, mobilizing, and organizing, members of the CWA Local 1180-Bird Union have ratified their first union contract with the National Audubon Society. Members ratified the contract in a unanimous vote.

Members made significant progress on fair compensation, winning their first guaranteed, across-the-board raises at Audubon. Across-the-board raises have been shown to improve pay equity, an important goal for Bird Union members. Union members won up to 7% annual raises and significant annual bonuses. The contract also improves important employee benefits, such as paid parental leave, which will increase from two weeks to 12.

“Members have been waiting a long time for the benefits and protections that a contract provides,” said Soncey Kondrotis, a member of the CWA Local 1180-Bird Union and Audubon employee. “We will finally see raises, bonuses, and wage leveling that has been promised for years—money that people have needed in these years we have been bargaining. Through the process of forming our union and negotiating our contract, I have had the opportunity to meet some of the great people we have at Audubon, and I only see this organization changing for the better.”

 
Members of the CWA Local 1180-Bird Union voted unanimously to ratify their first contract with the National Audubon Society, a non-profit environmental organization.