Tobey Hospital workers and Southcoast Health System reached a short-term agreement regarding Tobey workers’ salaries and benefits, which have been under negotiation for several months, on Oct. 30.

The 230 affected workers at Tobey Hospital are represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers East, and include certified nursing assistants, housekeeping staff, technologists, patient access staff and transport personnel.

Southcoast spokesperson Peter Cohenno said in an email they will now receive a minimum wage of $10.75 per hour, up from $10.50 per hour. In 2016, the minimum wage will increase to $11.05.

Massachusetts currently has a minimum wage of $9 per hour.

Cohenno also said Southcoast will match employees’ pension plans up to 6 percent of an employee’s contribution.

According to the union’s press release, the contract is effective retroactively to Jan. 1, 2015, and deals with “immediate bargaining issues.”

“The two-year contract agreement, ratified by a wide margin, includes anniversary step raises for most workers,” the press release read. “The remaining will see raises in the second year of the agreement, which expires in December 2016.”

A group of about 50 Tobey workers protested against Southcoast in June, claiming Southcoast was refusing to pay them what they considered a living wage.

“It is our hope that as one of the largest employers in the region, Southcoast Health executives will make a commitment to future pay increases that enable every Tobey Hospital worker and, in fact, all of the area’s healthcare workers access to a living wage,” the union’s Executive Vice President Veronica Turner said in the press release.

Cohenno said the hospital is “pleased that we have reached an agreement with SEIU that treats their members consistent with other employees at Southcoast in terms of pay, our pension plan and our comprehensive health insurance plan.”

Southcoast owns Tobey Hospital, as well as Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, and St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford.