Library Technical Assistants represented by Local 1930 voted overwhelmingly in January to approve a new contract that provides automatic pay boosts after seven and 10 years of employment.

The pact gives the LTAs a $500 salary increase after they complete seven years of full-time service and an additional $500 after 10 or more years. The payments — known as “recurring increment payments,” or RIPs — are built into the members’ base salaries as permanent increases that count toward pensions and future raises.

The workers voted 77-7 in favor of the agreement with The New York Public Library. The American Arbitration Association monitored the mail ballot and announced the results Jan. 11.

The negotiating committee included Local President Ray Markey, Vice President (LTAs) Joe Zeveloff, LTA Reps Diane Serrano and Kouros Esmeaeli, Secretary Carol Thomas, Vice President (Librarians) Lynn Taylor, Executive Board member Christine Karatnytsky and Michelle Green, an assistant director in the DC 37 Research and Negotiations Dept.

The LTA raises fulfill a provision of DC 37’s 1995-2000 contract that calls for individual bargaining units to negotiate the allocation of an extra payment based upon 1.52 percent of the Dec. 31, 1994, payroll. The LTAs who are immediately affected by the Local 1930 agreement will receive the RIPs retroactive to March 1, 2000.