LATE FRIDAY A TOLEDO, OHIO, COMMON PLEAS court judge granted the city’s firefighters a restraining order against the city to prevent them from reducing on-duty staffing numbers by eliminating a ladder company.
The Toledo Blade reports:
Less than 24 hours after Mayor Carty Finkbeiner announced a plan to reduce the firefighter line strength from the contractual mandated 103 per day to 99, the Toledo firefighters union filed a complaint to stop the change from going forward.
Toledo Firefighters Local 92 asked Judge Linda Jennings to grant a preliminary restraining order against the change as well as a declaratory judgment declaring that the city violated the collective bargaining agreement when it refused to timely arbitrate the union’s grievance relevant to layoffs.
The judge set a hearing date on Feb. 25 to decide whether to issue an injunction. The city already has a long history of being enjoined from reducing staffing of both the police and fire departments during past contract negotiations.
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