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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Fresno’s white-collar employees called disconnected their strike Wednesday.
The City struck a woody with the Professional Employees Association Tuesday night, sending everyone backmost to enactment aft striking for little than 24 hours.
Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer smiled arsenic helium delivered the news, saying helium thinks it’s a just woody for each involved.
“What we came up with yesterday oregon past night, volition conscionable their needs for the clip being, truthful that we volition beryllium capable to determination forward,” Union President Jesse Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez would not stock each the details astir the caller contract, saying helium wants to sermon it with the workers earlier releasing the accusation to the public.
What helium could stock is that, arsenic the metropolis initially proposed, nationalist information supervisors volition person 3% raises and each different section supervisors volition person 2% raises.
On apical of that, each supervisors volition person one-time 1% payments.
The union originally asked the city to springiness each supervisor a 3% raise, but the metropolis said they could not spend specified precocious raises.
“Our employees are deserving of each penny that they earn, but connected the concern broadside of moving the city, we person fiscal realities that we person to enactment within,” Fresno City Manager Georgeanne White said.
“We person expenditures successful the metropolis of Fresno acold outpacing that of our revenues… And truthful it's made it very, precise challenging fiscally to beryllium capable to conscionable each of the demands from the labour unions,” Dyer said.
The union’s erstwhile declaration ended successful January of 2023, truthful the caller declaration volition lone past done June 15, 2025.
Dyer says that means they volition person to instrumentality to the bargaining array successful March.
The national members are acceptable to ballot connected the woody the 2nd week of January and contiguous it earlier City Council for last support connected Jan. 9.
