Island Now: Great Neck Library staff, board of trustees reach deal for tentative contract

The Island Now reports that the Great Neck Library Staff Association has reached a tentative contract deal with the library's board of trustees.

According to union sources, staff have been working without a contract since the last contract expired in 2012. Though the two sides did sign a memorandum of understanding in 2018.

Since the 2018 memorandum, disagreements have arisen between the board as workers who had been with the library for two decades were being told that they had hit the pay cap and would not qualify for further pay increases promised by the memorandum.

The contract concludes a campaign by the union to engage the community and involve patrons in the issues as the union was not permitted to strike.