With contract at end, city to negotiate with OCFD union

Although the real meat of the process is still months away, the city is gearing up for negotiations with its firefighters’ union over the coming winter.

The town’s current contract with the local chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters, approved in April of 2013, was good for three years. A new collective bargaining agreement will need to be hammered out in advance of the city’s spring budget process, with fiscal year 2017 beginning June 1, 2016.

The city council met behind closed doors this week with attorneys from Miles & Stockbridge, the town’s labor counsel.

“Per the city’s charter, labor contracts are to be done by March 1,” said City Solicitor Guy Ayres. “So we put together some dates that we’ve submitted to the IAFF for January and March.”

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