Mayor Mike Duggan, Fire Commissioner Eric Jones and Detroit Fire Fighters Association President Mike Nevin on Friday, July 15, announced a tentative collective bargaining agreement between the city and the DFFA, which represents Detroit’s 915 firefighters.
The agreement will provide a 4 percent across-the-board raise for all firefighters licensed to perform medical first responder work. The contract requires that all members of DFFA be offered training in MFR by the city. This is in addition to previously negotiated raises of 2.5 percent this year, 2.5 percent in 2017, 2.5 percent in 2018 and 3.0 percent in 2019.
Like their suburban counterparts, Detroit firefighters have been receiving MFR training. As of today, firefighters at 26 of the DFD’s 46 companies are taking medical runs. The raise in this agreement pays them for this additional work and skill.
Late last year, the mayor announced raises for all three Detroit police unions, which represent all of the city’s 2,200 sworn police personnel. Although the current DFFA contract doesn’t expire until March 2019, the mayor chose to reopen the contract to also provide raises to the city’s firefighters and to help secure their pensions.
The deal announced Friday also calls for a 6 percent wage increase, which will be contributed to the firefighters’ legacy pensions once certain technical details
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