Despite a better-than 2-to-1 recommendation to ratify by union delegates, Uniformed Firefighters Association members Dec. 22 provided just a narrow vote of approval for a seven-year wage contract providing 11 percent in raises while offering important gains on staffing guarantees and disability rights for more-recent hires.
With 76 percent of the union’s 8,000 members returning ballots to the American Arbitration Association, 3,131 voted in favor of the pact agreed to in early August, with 2,955 dissenting.
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