USW Members Approve Contract With AmeriServ Bank in Pennsylvania

Oct. 22, 2013, 4:00 AM UTC

Members of United Steelworkers Local 2635-06 have ratified a new four-year contract with AmeriServ Financial Bank that increases wages by 3 percent each year for some 188 employees in 18 branch offices throughout western Pennsylvania, a bank official told Bloomberg BNA Oct. 22.

A tentative agreement was reached Oct. 10 and was ratified Oct. 14, a day before the previous contract was due to expire, Ralph Lippart, a USW international staff representative, told Bloomberg BNA Oct. 21.

AmeriServ, which is headquartered in Johnstown, Pa., is one of only about a dozen banks in the U.S. whose employees are represented by ...

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