NEW YORK—A planned worker strike that threatened to impact the Belmont Stakes this Saturday will no longer happen.
Union members from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3, which has about 140 maintenance crew for the New York Racing Association, recently agreed to strike on raceday, financial secretary Vincent McElroen told the Daily Racing Form.
The union was perturbed about a 30 percent reduction in wages and benefits from the racing assocation and that future retired workers will receive less health benefits.
On June 6, however, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the two parties had reached a labor contract agreement.
The agreement, according to the governor’s release, “addresses all major economic issues, including shift schedules, benefits for active employees, as well as pension and retiree medical benefits.”
Both parties expressed satisfaction with the agreement. The contract between the two is now extended through February 28, 2014.
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