Rolling Meadows extends contract with public works employees

Rolling Meadows has inked a two-year extension to a labor contract with public works employees.

The city council this week unanimously approved the agreement with International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150. The pact calls for wage increases of 2.25% this year and 2% next year.

The new salaries represent the only changes to the original agreement, approved in July 2018 after the Illinois Labor Relations Board certified those city employees' memberships in the union.

The new deal runs through 2022.