Crime & Safety
Glenview Firefighters Will Get Raises
New 5-year contract puts yearly raises in place until 2019.
GLENVIEW, IL - Firefighters in Glenview will receive an average annual pay raise of 1.85 percent until 2019 after village officials and Glenview Professional Firefighters Association Local 4186 agreed to a new five-year contract this week.
The contract includes one year of retroactive pay raises dating to 2015, according to Pioneer Press.
The retroactive pay hike will be at 1.5 percent, with a 1.75 percent raise over the next three years and a 2.5 percent bump in the final year of the contract.
A spokesperson for the union, which agreed to increase its health insurance contributions by between 2 and 4 percent, called the contract “fair.”
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