BUTLER TWP — The union workers at Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center now have a contract with their new employer.

Workers on Thursday voted 114 to 1 to accept a three-year pact with Investment 360 of Lakewood, N.J., that includes a wage freeze in 2015 and 2.5 percent pay hikes in 2016 and 2017.

Kevin Schreffler, president of the Sunnyview chapter of SEIU Healthcare, said workers were satisfied with the terms.

“The members were quite pleased with the contract,” Schreffler said.

The new contract, which covers roughly 230 out of 250 total Sunnyview employees, includes an increase in employee contributions to health care coverage.

The company will pay 80 percent of medical costs while workers pay the remaining 20 percent.

Under the current three-year contract with Butler County, employees received 3 percent pay hikes each year and paid a portion of their health coverage via a 1.5 percent paycheck deduction. The current contract is in its last year.

New hires have different terms, but those details were not available.

Schreffler said negotiations and related work went smoothly.

“It took us about four days and we were done,” he said.

Schreffler said the company told workers 90 percent of them will retain their jobs and no one is taking a pay cut.

“We’re maintaining all our current wages,” he said.

The staff at the 220-bed nursing home will have fewer holidays than they did working for the county.

Schreffler said employees like the owners of the company.

“The gentlemen were very understanding and supportive,” he said.

Bruce Peckman, a managing partner of Investment 360, said the company also was pleased with the results.

“We worked very hard to come up with a reasonable agreement,” Peckman said. “There was a lot of compromise and discussion on both sides.”

Along with Peckman, the company’s majority owners are Jonathan Bleier, Jacob Sod and Eli Friedman.

County Commissioner Bill McCarrier, board chairman, said a new contract is good news.

“I’m happy for everybody that they were able to work out a contract,” McCarrier said.

Commissioner Dale Pinkerton agreed.

“I’m just glad that they did,” Pinkerton said.

Commissioner Jim Eckstein said despite his opposition to the sale, he wants things to go well at Sunnyview.

“Now we’re at this point, I want to do everything possible to make the transition as smooth and amicable as possible,” Eckstein said.

Investment 360 is paying $20.4 million to the county for Sunnyview.

The purchase price covers any accounts receivable, money owed Sunnyview, and the 7.8 acres on which the building is on at the complex off Morton Avenue.

The county retains ownership of the adjacent property on which is located the Area Agency on Aging, District Judge Kevin O’Donnell’s office, the Butler County Conservation District and the Emergency Services building, which includes the 911 dispatch center.

Before the sale closing can occur, Investment 360 requires the state Department of Health’s approval of a nursing home license transfer.

Peckman said the closing would occur as soon as possible, but that wasn’t likely before June.

The company operates 17 other health care facilities in six states: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut and Minnesota.