HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 19 Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the City and IAFF, Local 1395
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Meeting Date: 12/3/2012
Meeting Type: Regular Meeting
Staff Contact/Dept.: Peter Fehrs
Staff Phone No: 541-726-3786
Estimated Time: 10 Minutes
S P R I N G F I E L D
C I T Y C O U N C I L
Council Goals: Financially Responsible
and Stable Government
Services
ITEM TITLE: COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS (IAFF), LOCAL 1395.
ACTION
REQUESTED:
Seek Council’s ratification of a three-year IAFF Collective Bargaining Agreement
which will normalize labor contracts between the City of Springfield and the City
of Eugene.
ISSUE
STATEMENT:
The City and IAFF have come to agreement on a contract which will align with the
contract between Eugene and IAFF Local 851. Over three years, our IAFF will
adopt Eugene’s pay scale, seniority, management rights, drug and alcohol,
discipline, and grievance language. Further, we will adopt Kelly Days, new
vacation scheduling, and a new vacation accrual system, all in line with Eugene.
Salary increases in each of the three years are intended to keep current with Eugene
and the market.
In return, we will be able to “hire” firefighters from Eugene and vice versa. As our
management staff has already been integrated, an integrated operations staff
represents the last hurdle for a merged department.
This contract ensures that a firefighter from either City will do the same work under
the same rules for the same compensation package.
The total cost for the three years of the contract is 1,044,000. Based on comparable
communities, if the City bargained with Local 1395 without the merger, we could
have expected to spend $380,000 and $550,000 in the first year of the contract
alone.
Due to the nature of binding interest arbitration under Oregon law, we feel that
while our costs may be in line with what we would have spent without a merger, we
are able to reap greater benefits due to the merger.
ATTACHMENTS: None
DISCUSSION/
FINANCIAL
IMPACT:
The bargaining teams have meet in recent weeks to negotiate a labor agreement that
settles IAFF’s labor contract while aligning with the City of Eugene. At the last
bargaining session, the two teams tentatively agreed on a three year contract.
The City’s Finance department has projected costs as follows: $21,000 in FY13,
$396,000 in FY14, and $627,000 in FY15.