Excerpts from the Journal-Topics.com:
Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson and leaders of Elk Grove Village Firefighters Union Local 2340, Union President John Lodewyck and Vice President Brian McVeigh, signed a union contract extension at Tuesday’s (Feb. 13) village board meeting, extending the contract for a five-year term running from May 2019 through the end of April 2024.
The contract covers 81 Elk Grove Village firefighters at the rank of lieutenant and below. The contract ties firefighter pay scales to those of the police department. Firefighters earn slightly less, but reflect increases or decreases of police, with fire lieutenants mirroring police sergeants, and firefighters and paramedics mirroring police patrol officers.
Battalion chiefs, the deputy fire chief, and Fire Chief Richard Mikel are exempt from the contract.
