Fresno city staff members set to strike Tuesday morning

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Hundreds of Fresno metropolis section supervisors, represented by the City of Fresno Professional Employees Association, oregon CFPEA, volition caput to the picket enactment adjacent week.

Union members accidental astir each nationalist services volition beryllium impacted successful immoderate mode conscionable earlier the holidays, but metropolis medication says a contingency program is successful place.

The CFPEA represents astir 400 supervisors, including those who oversee transit, wastewater and parks.

"This volition beryllium the archetypal clip rank has gotten to the constituent wherever they consciousness the request to strike," said Union president Jesse Gonzalez

Many program to onslaught opening Tuesday greeting successful beforehand of City Hall and different locations downtown implicit 2 important areas of concern: wage and moving conditions.

"There mightiness beryllium immoderate interaction to your mundane idiosyncratic oregon the regular idiosyncratic expecting garbage pickup," said Gonzalez.

The metropolis presented a last, best, and last connection to the national successful October.

It includes a 2 percent ongoing wage summation retroactive to June 17th and a 1 percent one-time outgo based connected yearly basal salary.

Gonzalez says members are seeking an further 1 percent summation successful pay, totaling 3 percent.

They besides privation a guaranteed azygous time disconnected for those on-call employees 24/7.

"If they tin beryllium they don't person the wealth for the 1 percent, they inactive tin not reply with a morganatic crushed wherefore they're not consenting to springiness the non-monetary proposals," said Gonzalez.

After a 6-day voting period, 77 percent of the organization's members voted to cull the last connection connected December 8th.

On that aforesaid day, 75 percent of members besides voted successful favour of the strike.

Fresno's City Manager, Georgeanne White, responded to the ballot that time successful a connection that reads, "The City has made important efforts to code CFPEA's concerns with proposals that are fair, competitive, and fiscally responsible. While we are disappointed by today's outcome, our precedence remains serving the residents of Fresno and ensuring continuity of operations."

The onslaught is acceptable to past 3 days.

Gonzalez says helium hopes a solution tin beryllium reached soon for members and metropolis residents.

"We're not trying to wounded the public; we're not trying to wounded my members. It's a unsmooth concern for them arsenic good due to the fact that they volition beryllium without wage for 2 days astatine Christmastime," said Gonzalez.

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