(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - A tentative agreement on a new six-year contract has been reached between Erie County Government and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 815’s Erie County Unit, Union Officials and County Executive Mark Poloncarz announced.  CSEA Membership is expected to vote on the agreement in early January.

The tentative agreement covers the period between January 1st, 2017 and December 31st, 2022. There are 2,400 CSEA Local 815 Members employed by Erie County, along with an additional 1,500 Members employed by the Erie County Medical Center Corporation, Erie Community College and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.

“These negotiations ‘have not been easy.’  All parties came to the table ‘fully prepared to bargain aggressively,’” CSEA’s Erie County Local & Unit President Denise Szymura and Labor Relations Specialist Robert Mueller said in a released statement.

“In the end though, CSEA ‘feels that we reached a mutually beneficial agreement that treats our Members fairly.’  We are ‘confident’ in the terms of the agreement and will start the process of informing our Members of the details very soon,” they said.

County Executive Poloncarz said: “Contract negotiations always involve an open dialogue and good faith efforts on both sides.  This tentative agreement is the culmination of those efforts, and I want to thank Commissioner of Labor Relations Steve Miller and his team along with the CSEA Local 815 team for working out a proposed contract that respects Labor and the taxpayers.”

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