Local 916 Calls Out Employer for Violating
Contract, Withholding Wages from 500 Workers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 23,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters Local 916 is demanding
that the Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS)
pay workers at the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) the
negotiated wage increases in the collective bargaining agreement.
As of July 1, 2024, more than 500
IDOT Teamsters have not received the wages they are legally
owed.
"IDOT Teamsters are essential public servants who deserve to not
only be paid what they are contractually owed but should be treated
with dignity and respect by their employer," said JP Fyans III,
President of Local 916. "It's abhorrent that CMS would allow
hundreds of workers to go without the pay increases agreed upon in
the contract. We are demanding that the State of Illinois honor their legally binding
commitments to these members and pay them now."
"CMS promised us these wage increases and now they are refusing
to pay us. We deserve better," said Dawn
Vock, an engineering technician at IDOT.
The contract was ratified in March
2024, after Local 916 spent more than 10 months in
negotiations. The legally binding collective bargaining agreement
is retroactive to July 1, 2023, and
requires that IDOT pay workers the agreed upon salary
increases.
To date, Local 916 has filed nine grievances on behalf of 500
IDOT Teamsters who have been impacted by state's illegal behaviors
to withhold wage increases, and we will continue to fight until
these workers get every single penny they are owed.
Teamsters Local 916 represents more than 4,000 hard-working men
and women throughout the state of Illinois from Chicago to Carbondale and East
Saint Louis to Champaign. For more information, visit
teamsters916.org.
Contact:
Matt McQuaid, (202)
624-6877
mmcquaid@teamster.org
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