A strike by gravediggers at St. Raymond’s Cemetery in The Bronx ended yesterday with ratification of a new three-year contract by members of Teamsters Union Local 282.
The cemetery, one of the busiest in the city, will reopen to visitors today, and the gravediggers will return to work Monday morning, said Msgr. Thomas Bergin, head of St. Raymond’s parish. The gravediggers walked off their jobs on Jan. 15.
Details of the settlement were not disclosed, but Paul Luddine, the union’s Bronx business representative, said it included increases in wages and benefits that both workers and cemetery managers were “happy with.”