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City Ratifies Contract With Columbus Firefighters

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Unionized Columbus firefighters will soon be working under a new contract.

City Council last night ratified a three-year deal with the the local firefighters union. The deal provides retroactive pay raises of 3.25 percent in 2017 and 2018, and a 3.5 percent raise next year. Both sides said health care was a major concern during negotiations. This deal gives firefighters two health insurance options at a slightly higher cost. Sponsoring Council member Emmanuel Remy.

The deal already ratified by the union covers roughly 15 hundred firefighters. 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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