The Tiverton Town Council recently ratified a Memorandum of Agreement with the firefighters’ union and approved all tentative agreed-upon provisions of a new three-year contract with the police union. In negotiations, town officials said the primary goal in coming up with new collective bargaining agreements was to bring salaries for both firefighters and police closer to comparable departments in surrounding towns.
The town and fire union reopened the existing three-year contract, which expires June 30, 2025, and created a Memorandum of Agreement for the coming year that pertains only to wages.
The agreement calls for a 10 percent salary increase for non-probationary [existing] staff, over and above the 2.75 percent increase previously ratified, beginning July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025.