The Service Employees International Union appears poised to become the second state employee labor organization to agree to concessions sought by the Strickland administration.

On Tuesday, negotiators for the state and union agreed to a new contract that includes $14.9 million in concessions, said Becky Williams, president of SEIU District 1199.

Williams predicted the agreement will be approved by the 4,500-member union representing professional and health-care workers in a number of state agencies.

The contract includes 10 unpaid days off, a wage freeze and give-back of 32 hours of personal leave, Williams confirmed. Other details were not immediately available.

The agreement is similar to the pattern-setting contract worked out earlier this year by state negotiators with the Ohio Civil Services Employees Association.

State officials have been unwilling to comment on the status of negotiations with labor unions.

The Strickland administration told union leaders that it needed about $170 million in concessions from unions representing 60,000 employees to help plug holes in the state budget.

The OCSEA, the largest employee union representing 35,000 employees, voted in late March to approve a three-year contract that includes no pay raises and 10 days of mandatory unpaid furloughs.

Several smaller bargaining units, including the Fraternal Order of Police, are still in contract talks.

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