|
Firefighter Union News. Firefighter news and Information for professional Firefighters, volunteer firefighters and Labor Organizations Representing Firefighters |
|
|
Written by rapidcityjournal.com
|
|
Rapid City and its firefighters have come to an agreement on wages that could end a two-year dispute between management and the union that represents the Rapid City Fire Department’s rank and file.
City firefighters and paramedics would get a 2.5 percent raise in January, on top of a half-percent raise they are currently entitled to, according to the proposed memorandum of understanding between the city and the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1040. A second wage increase would be due in July 2013, the amount of which would depend on city sales tax revenue.
If the city ends 2012 up at least 1 percent over 2011 sales tax collections, firefighters would get a raise of 1.25 percent next summer. Depending on the growth factor, that second raise could also be 2.5 percent, 3.75 percent or 5 percent.
Under the agreement, wages for union-eligible firefighters would increase to 90 percent of the average in the region identified in a 2009 study.
City and union officials on Tuesday said the proposed agreement was the result of a collaborative interest-based bargaining program that began shortly after a court ruling...more |
|
Written by articles.boston.com
|
|
Scituate town officials this week will begin to spend over $324,000 to pay for firefighter wage increases for 2011-2013 that the Scituate Firefighters Union won in an arbitration award earlier last month.
Under the agreement, firefighters would receive no increase for FY10, a 1.5 percent increase for FY11, and a 2 percent increase for FY12 and FY13.
Scituate officials will vote on several budget transfers this week to support an arbitration award, which will add $48,000 to FY11 wages, $113,000 for FY12 wages (with overtime projected) and over $163,000 in wages and benefits for FY12.
The arbitration decision brings to an end the town’s three-year contract dispute with the union, which has been ongoing since the union’s previous contract expired on June 30, 2009.
The parties attempted to negotiate on their own, but by 2011, were unable to reach an agreement.
After the Massachusetts Joint Labor Management Committee agreed that the negotiation process has been...more |
|
|
Written by sacbee.com
|
|
The Sacramento City Council gets its first chance today to dive into a proposed budget that would cut nearly 100 police officers and firefighters, the most severe cutbacks ever to the city's public safety ranks.
As part of a plan to fill a $15.7 million deficit for the fiscal year beginning July 1, City Manager John Shirey has proposed laying off 62 firefighters and 34 police officers. Another 10 employees in the Police Department would also lose their jobs.
The City Council will not vote tonight on whether to follow through with the cuts but is likely to provide feedback and direction on the plan. The budget is scheduled to be adopted next month.
Cuts to the parks department are also scheduled to be discussed tonight.
The cuts to public safety could be avoided if the unions representing those workers agreed to pick up the entirety of the employee share of their California Public Employees' Retirement System pension contributions.
Shirey has made pensions a budget priority since taking office last year. He agreed to...more |
|
Written by fox4kc.com
|
|
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City, Missouri, City Council committee is set to vote on Wednesday on a new collective bargaining agreement with KCMO Firefighters, ending months of fighting between the firefighter’s union and city leaders.
The three-year agreement will outline $7.6 million in cuts to the department, including the elimination of 33 positions – most of which through early retirements. The cuts are far less than the elimination of over 100 jobs within the department first proposed by City Manager Troy Schulte.
KCFD Chief Smokey Dyer had said that the elimination of 100 firefighter positions could put public safety in jeopardy.
The new contract also adjusts how the department calculates overtime. Under the new agreement, firefighters will begin to acrue overtime hours after 53 hours per week, instead of 49 1/2 hours under the current contract.
City officials say that the change in overtime should save the city around $3.5 million per year...more |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Page 1 of 28 |
