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Buffalo Grove Fire Department news

Apr 27

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A one-year contact between the Village of Buffalo Grove and the Buffalo Grove Professional Firefighters and Paramedics Local 3177 was approved by trustees giving 52 members a 2.5%-3% increase in base salaries from May 1 through April 30, 2020. The agreement provides a 3% increase for firefighter/paramedics and a 2.5% increase for fire lieutenants.

As part of the agreement, starting May 1 firefighter/paramedics will earn between $64,829.44 and $105,691.04, depending on years of service. Lieutenants that are paramedics will earn between $111,096.96 and $123,980.48; lieutenants that are not paramedics will earn between $108,902.56 and $121,530.24.

According to village officials, the deal is identical to the agreement reached between the parties last year.

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Buffalo Grove Fire Department news

Oct 18

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Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:

The Buffalo Grove village board approved a new three-year deal with its firefighters Monday that will give the union members a 2 percent raise next year retroactive to May 1. Salary hikes in the last two years of the deal will be negotiated separately.

Fire Chief Mike Baker called the deal a status quo renewal of the village’s contract with International Association of Firefighters, Local 3177 that expired at the end of April. The number of available health plans dropped from three to two, one an HMO and another a PPO.

The minimum and starting annual salary is $61,674. After seven years of employment, firefighters can earn more than $100,500.

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New contract for Buffalo Grove firefighters

Oct 24

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The Daily Herald has an article about a new contract for firefighters in Buffalo Grove.

After more than a year of working under an expired contract, Buffalo Grove firefighters have reached agreement with the village on a new four-year labor deal.

The village board Monday ratified the agreement with the Buffalo Grove Professional Firefighter/Paramedic Association Local 3177, for the period beginning May 1, 2013 and ending April 30, 2017.

The contract gives fire department employees represented by the union a 2 percent pay hike retroactive to May 2013 and another 2 percent raise retroactive to May 2014. The deal also allows either side to reopen the contract in March 2016 to renegotiate future salaries.

Fire Chief Terry Vavra said most of the changes in the new contract simply provide clarification of language in the old one. For example, the drug and alcohol policy was tightened to bring it more into line with the provisions for other village employees. The old policy had become “very cumbersome and very labor intensive,” he said.

The agreement also clarifies the rules for secondary employment — if, for instance, a firefighter works for another department. “Before they come to work, they have to be off any secondary employment for at least eight hours,” Vavra said.

The raises are consistent with those offered to other village employees, he said.

thanks Dan

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