Title
Approval of a Labor Contract with the International Association of Fire Fighters, CIO Local #468, Fire Mechanics
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to approve the labor contract with the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local #468, Fire Mechanics and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreements.
Report
Issue:
Whether to approve the labor contract between the City of Olympia and the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), Local #468, Fire Mechanics
Staff Contact:
Joe Olson, HR Director, Executive Department, 360.753.8309
Presenter(s):
None - Consent Calendar Item.
Background and Analysis:
This is a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the Fire Department Mechanics (4 employees) who are represented by International Association of Fire Fighters, the same organization that represents the City Firefighters and Assistant Fire chiefs. This new agreement has been ratified by the Union and City staff are now bringing it forward for approval.
The new proposed contract for Council consideration is attached.
This agreement will end on December 31, 2019, so that in the future we are bargaining all Fire Department CBA's at the same time.
Significant articles in the contract are in the areas of wages and benefits.
Wages
For the last several years, wage increases in the City CBA's had been based on "sales tax" tables. Rather than continue with the "sales tax" tables we have used for the past few years, we decided to move back to the more standard way of calculating wage increased for represented employees, which is using the Seattle-W Consumer Price Index (CPI). We felt that the "sales tax" method had helped us catch up for the years when we gave little or no wage increases because of the economy, but it was now time to go back to the more traditional method of wage increase calculation which is using a percentage of Seattle-W CPI.
The Fir...
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