Sanford Nowlin
Over the last spherical of negotiations, then firefighters union president, Chris Steele (pictured above), launched a scorched earth marketing campaign towards the mayor andcity supervisor.
San Antonio and town’s highly effective firefighters union will start negotiations on a brand new labor settlement on Thursday, in keeping with the Specific-Information.
The present contract, agreed upon in 2020 following a scorched earth strategy from the union, expires on the finish of this yr. Even so, officers concerned within the matter informed the every day information that this spherical of negotiators will hopefully be extra civil.
“We’re all type of testing new waters right here as a result of the previous so was contentious — downright acrimonious,” President of the San Antonio Skilled Firefighters Affiliation Joe Jones informed the every day this week.
The “acrimonious” actions Jones is referencing are the union’s guerilla-like warfare launched towards Metropolis Corridor, the mayor, and metropolis supervisor over the past negotiations.
For folk that will have forgotten, then San Antonio Firefighters Union President Chris Steele launched a profitable city-wide marketing campaign to amend town constitution in 2018 to cap town managers’ pay and time in workplace.
Steele’s techniques had been in response to the Metropolis Supervisor Sheryl Sculley’s stalling of negotiations.
The Firefighters Union was additionally concerned in a plot to interchange the newly elected Mayor Ron Nirenberg and change him with union ally, then District 6 Councilman Greg Brockhouse – though that coup was unsuccessful.
Nevertheless, each Steele and Scully are lengthy gone, and metropolis and union leaders are wanting ahead to a extra well mannered dialogue this time round.
Nirenberg stated throughout a metropolis finances work session earlier this month that he hopes a brand new contract will be hashed out “earlier than we get to the meat of our finances adoption for 2025,” in keeping with the Specific-Information.
In the meantime, Jones, who changed Steele in 2021, informed the every day he stays “cautiously optimistic.”
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