Four-year contract for PPL, IBEW local
By Andrew Maykuth
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
PPL Corp. of Allentown will provide annual pay increases up to 3 percent for 3,300 unionized workers under a new four-year contract that also curbs some health-care costs.
The energy company's contract with Local 1600 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers provides for pay increases that step up annually from 2.5 percent the first year to 3 percent in the final year, Paul G. Wirth, a PPL spokesman, said Tuesday.
The contract, which applies to workers at PPL Electric Utilities as well as PPL's power-generation subsidiary, runs through May 11, 2014.
Wirth said the contract also changes the premiums charged to workers for health-care benefits.
Under the old contract, all employees were charged the same amount, regardless of marital status.
Under the new contract, employees with spouses or dependents will pay more, and single employees will see a reduction in premiums, he said. He declined to say how much the change would affect the company's health-care costs.
IBEW Local 1600 is PPL's largest union, representing nearly half the company's workforce of 7,000 employees. The utility serves customers in eastern and central Pennsylvania.
Contact staff writer Andrew Maykuth at 215-854-2947 or amaykuth@phillynews.com.
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