Ironworkers OK 3-year pact BY JONATHAN WEGNER, Omaha World Herald, NE
Local 21 of the Ironworkers Union unanimously has agreed to a three-year contract with the Omaha Building Contractors Employers Association.
The contract guarantees the union's 325 members pay increases of $1.20 an hour, or 4 percent, the first year and $1.10, or 3.5 percent, for the second and third years, said William Biede, the union's business manager. At the end of the contract, a top-level ironworker will earn $25.35 per hour, he said.