Youngstown council mulls 3-year pact with city firefighters

YOUNGSTOWN — City council will consider approving a three-year contract Wednesday with its firefighters union that would include a 3-percent retroactive pay raise during the deal’s first year and give the two sides room to negotiate possible raises during the final two years.

In a letter to city council, Law Director Iris Torres Guglucello said she favors the adoption of a nonbinding fact-finder’s report on the two remaining issues with the union. Council will meet Wednesday in executive session to discuss the report and vote on the proposed deal.

David Cook, president of the city’s 140-member union, expects his membership to approve the pact.

The two issues are wages and health insurance benefits.

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