Glendale Heights and its public works and custodial employees have agreed on a 3-year contract that includes raises, a restructured pay scale and increases in benefits.
Salaries could rise as much as 9.5 percent this year, depending on the employee’s length of service and job classification.
A maintenance worker with four years of experience, for example, will go from $15.78 an hour this year to $18.95 an hour in the third year of the agreement.
With this contract, it will now take employees 8 years, instead of 18 months, to get to the top of the salary schedule.
Employees will receive higher allowances to buy job-required safety shoes and a $75 reimbursement for the purchase of prescription safety glasses.
Bargaining unit members will have to pay out as much as $50 more this year, $60 next year and $75 the following year toward the cost of their dependents’ medical insurance premiums.
The 37 members of Teamsters Union Local 726 and village trustees approved the pact late last week.
