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Toledo Firefighters Association, IAFF Local 92 Tentative Agreement
HR Dept.-Michael Niedzielski (x2182); Anthony Markwood (x1525)
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Approving the revision of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City of Toledo and the Toledo Firefighters Association, IAFF Local 92, for a successor agreement, consistent with the bargained understandings; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The City of Toledo and the Toledo Firefighters Association, IAFF Local 92 ("Local 92") reached a tentative agreement over terms that revise the current collective bargaining agreement, which expired on December 31, 2017, for a successor agreement, for the new term of January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2020. The Union ratified that tentative agreement on August 23, 2018. Pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 4117.10(B), the economic provisions of that agreement are now being submitted to City Council for consideration and passage. If not acted upon within 30 days, the agreement is deemed approved.
Pursuant to the statutory bargaining process under the Ohio Revised Code, the City and the Union met multiple times during the last several months to negotiate the terms of a successor agreement.
The tentative agreement reached provides the City with the ability to reassign six (6) Lieutenants from the Communications Bureau to line operations and civilianize those Fire Communications Bureau Shift Supervisor positions. Also, this agreement enhances the safety of the citizens of Toledo as well as the firefighters by providing a process to achieve all four-person engines by the end of the agreement. In addition, the agreement provides revisions to the drug and alcohol testing policy to include discretionary testing for alcohol and post-accident drug and alcohol testing. Further, the agreement decreases the amount of union release time and reduces the number of members permitted to negotiate a successor collective bargaining agreement.
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