Niles won't give longevity pay to nonunion workers

NILES — The city’s full-time, nonunion employees, who asked for the same longevity scale paid to Niles’ unions, will not get it.

Council has yielded to the adamant opposition of Mayor Ralph Infante and approved a package of only modest increases with no longevity scale for the city’s nonunion bargaining workers and managers.

“It’s not what I would have liked to see,” said Councilman Steve Papalas, D-at large. “We should have given [to the nonunion employees] what the unions have gotten, but this is what we have.”

The union longevity scale is implemented in the sixth year of an employee’s service as a percentage of the base wage.

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