'There's only so much': Fresno Mayor addresses city employee strike

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Following a metropolis worker onslaught that took spot extracurricular Fresno City Hall Tuesday, Mayor Jerry Dyer addressed the details surrounding the city's negotiations.

Mayor Dyer says pursuing respective negotiations, the City of Fresno Professional Employees Association (CFPEA) declared an impasse aft receiving their Last, Best, and Final Offer (LBFO) from the metropolis connected Oct. 2.

"In full the bundle that we offered was valued astatine $2,564,000 and that averages retired to, for their membership, to $6,200 per year, per member," Dyer said. "Their inquire from the [CFPEA] was conscionable implicit $4 million."

The politician adds the fiscal needs addressed successful the Class and Compensation Study conducted respective years agone were included successful the city's LFBO.

During the past bargaining session, the metropolis stated determination were 13 conditions they could not travel to an statement with. The CFPEA reportedly told the metropolis it was each 13 conditions oregon nothing.

Dyer says it would beryllium "disheartening" to different labour unions if the metropolis offered much wealth to the CFPEA erstwhile different unions person antecedently accepted akin offers.

"We person a fiscal work to the taxpayers of the metropolis of Fresno and that is to supply a just compensation to the employees, but astatine the aforesaid clip compensate our employees astatine a level successful which we tin afford," the politician said.

The interaction of the onslaught volition beryllium felt successful areas ranging from the airport, garbage prime up, thoroughfare maintenance, the autobus and more, Dyer says the metropolis has prepared contingency plans to person radical capable successful the positions connected onslaught opening Tuesday.

"We admit and worth the enactment that the [CFPEA] members bash time successful and time out. I've worked with galore of them for galore years, but there's lone truthful overmuch we tin afford," the politician said.

Dyer says helium hopes to scope an statement soon and volition enactment with the CFPEA done the holidays but says the metropolis would request "a tenable request."

A 2nd onslaught volition perchance instrumentality spot connected Wednesday.