The Gridley City Council in June approved a one-year contract extension with IBEW Local 1245. The extension had already been ratified unanimously by Local 1245 members.
The union committee had completed preparation for negotiations, but the city’s financial condition created a poor environment for bargaining. The parties negotiated the one-year extension after meeting four times.
While the extension provided for no COLA, it did provide some low- or no-cost items of benefit to the members, including vacation buy back, renaming of senior line worker to Line Working Foreman, and Local 1245 clerk bumping rights to the confidential Administrative Assistant position for a period of two years.