City officials will spend $530,000 in order to give transit workers a higher hourly wage.
The contract with the United Transportation Union, Local 1785 expired this past summer so the City Council tonight is expected to renew the agreement for three more years.
The agreement would take effect immediately and would end June 30, 2008, raising the hourly salary from $20.55 to $21.25 for the fiscal year 2005- 06; to $22 for the fiscal year 2006-07 and to $23 for the fiscal year 2007-08. Transit employees also will receive $35 per month instead of $30 in their uniform allowance.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 11, 2005. Read the original PDF.