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Cheyenne negotiations stall after parties fail to agree on wage data
Summary
A special March 17 bargaining session between city leaders and Cheyenne Professional Firefighters Local 279 ended without agreement on wages after negotiators said they could not reconcile competing data sets; the governing body agreed to exchange data and meet again.
Mayor Collins and members of the governing body met in a special session March 17 for collective bargaining with Cheyenne Professional Firefighters, Local 279, but left without resolving wages after parties disagreed over which compensation data sets to use.
Mayor Collins said the city has increased staffing and invested in the fire department since he took office in January 2021, noting that staffing rose “from 89 firefighters” to 103 and that the city has built three new stations and ordered additional apparatus. He told negotiators he was "comfortable doing a 3% raise" as part of a broader assessment of pay and total compensation.
"Right now, we're willing to table wages and move forward…
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