The City of New York has negotiated a 12 percent wage increase for 13,000 workers at 400 social service agencies employed by the City. This increase comes as the first wage hike since 2001 for social workers, cooks, custodians, clerical workers, drivers and other employees working at nonprofit agencies. Most of these workers are not unionized, and have voiced anger at not being given a wage raise in four years.
See "Service Agencies and City in Deal on Pay Raises", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, May 4, 2005