MRDD board sets talks with its union workers


September 11, 2007 at 2:15p.m.

MRDD board sets talks with its union workers

YOUNGSTOWN — Contract talks between the Mahoning County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and its teaching and service employees unions will resume this week and next.

MRDD Superintendent Larry Duck said a federal mediator will facilitate talks between the agency and the Mahoning Education Association for Developmental Disabilities, which represents some 140 employees, including teachers, and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1143, which represents about 88 support workers.

Talks are scheduled with Local 1143 on Friday and with MEADD on Sept. 19, Duck said.

Employees are working under the terms of their current contracts, which expired earlier this year.

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