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INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No. 10271
May 14, 2019
To the Mayor and Members of the City Council
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SUBJECT: FIRE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH THE FORT WORTH
FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 440
This Informal Report provides information regarding negotiations that have been ongoing between the City
and the Fort Worth Firefighters Local 440 to negotiate the terms of a third Fire Collective Bargaining
Agreement .
The current agreement was effective through September 30, 2018, with a one-year evergreen period,
meaning that the Agreement is no longer in effect after September 30, 2019. The contract provides for no
across-the-board wage increases to be implemented during the evergreen period.
On May 19, 2017, the Local 440 President, Michael Glynn, delivered a letter to City Manager David
Cooke, requesting that the City and the Local 440 begin negotiations for a third Fire Collective Bargaining
Agreement, thereby initiating the bargaining process. The first bargaining session was on October 3,
2017. From October 2017 through May 2018, the traditional CBA negotiations were put on hold while the
City and the Local 440 negotiated the details of the transition of healthcare for active fire fighters and
new Fire Collective Bargaining Agreement that serves the best interests of both the City and its fire
have been meeting with the Local 440 representatives over the past 18 months negotiating on topics and
matters ranging from across-the-board wages, apparatus staffing, hiring procedures, and promotional
processes.
The bargaining team and the Local are in the final stages of negotiation and are working through the
following two items: language for the Maintenance of Standards article and articles tied to wages and
incentive pays. As we have fiscally planned for future CBA and Meet & Confer agreements, we have been
forecasting to keep new contract costs limited to a 3% net change in the total cost of contract for each
labor agreement.
In order to ensure that the new CBA is in place prior to the end of the evergreen period, we plan to follow
the timeline below to present the proposed CBA to mayor & council for final approval, if the CBA is ratified
.
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Week of May 27 City and Local 440 to record intent of each CBA change
with a court reporter
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Week of June 3 Local will hold ratification meetings
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Tuesday, June 11 Work session presentation providing an overview of the
new CBA for Mayor & Council
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Tuesday, June 18 Mayor/Council vote on new Fire CBA
If you have any questions concerning these issues, please contact me or Assistant City Manager Valerie
Washington at 817-392-6192.
David Cooke
City Manager
ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH, TEXAS