Health-care package for Struthers workers approved

STRUTHERS — The city’s Cost Containment Committee has agreed on health-care coverage for city employees.

The agreement came at a meeting tonight as the committee tried to beat an end-of-the-year deadline. If an agreement wasn’t reached by then, the city was facing a 17 percent increase in coverage.

The city still faces an increase of 6.9 percent, which was negotiated down from 17 percent by its insurance broker.

The committee, which consists of representatives from city union and nonunion workers, the administration and council, debated for days about how to keep the city’s cost of family coverage at $1,200, which is the cap specified in the union contracts.

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