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Average pay raises in the private sector should continue to hover around 3 percent into early 2009. The Wage Trend Indicator, BNA’s quarterly survey, found little change is expected in pay raises given the findings of the second quarter.
Chris Glenn has been a home health-care provider since 2000 and currently works full time with the developmentally disabled sons of Liz Bartow in Prairie Village.
The Teamsters are in the midst of organizing the drivers and dock workers of UPS Freight Inc., but about 40 mechanics at the company’s local terminal are also in the unionizing process.
