About Us
Libertyville Local 3892
The Libertyville Professional Firefighters Association Local
3892, a member of the International Association of Firefighters
(“IAFF”) and the Association of the Firefighters of Illinois (“AFFI”)
are comprised of 25 sworn, full-time qualified and certificated
firefighter and Lieutenants employed by the Village of
Libertyville. The firefighters submitted an official request to
the Illinois Labor Relations Board (ILRB) to form a Union. On
January 18th, 1999, the firefighters voted with the
ILRB and were officially recognized as a Collective Bargaining
Unit with the state of Illinois and became IAFF Local 3892. Once
the members had officially formed Local 3892, the Union engaged
in very contentious negotiations with the Village of
Libertyville for their first contract. After several years of
failed negotiations and many months of arbitration, the members
of Local 3892 ratified their first contract in 2001. The
Lieutenant’s submitted a majority interest petition to join IAFF
Local 3892 in February, 2008. In September, 2008, the
Lieutenant’s voted in favor of joining Local 3892 after being
recognized as eligible to join by the ILRB. The Union is
currently working under their third contract which expires on
April 30, 2012.
The Union was formed due to the concerns of the members for both
there own benefit and for the benefit of the citizens of
Libertyville. The purpose of Local 3892 and all other IAFF
Unions is to protect membership as well as the public. The
Union protects its members by ensuring equal wages and benefits,
providing a safe work environment, providing fair
representation, and having the ability to voice our concerns
about department issues. In turn, the public is also protected
by having the Union fight to improve the level of service to the
public. One example is to ensure that only full-time qualified
certificated personnel are staffing the fire stations.
Certificated qualified personnel has been identified by
municipal code 65 ILCS § 10-2.1-4 as those persons who hold
certificates of appointment to the fire department from a valid
register of eligible’s established by the Libertyville Fire and
Police Commissioners. Senate Bill 834, which was derived from
an arbitration decision awarded to Local 3892, ensures that the
full-time certificated personnel shall not be substituted
permanently or temporarily with non-sworn unqualified
personnel. Currently, the Union has negotiated to have the
Village of Libertyville phase out the use of all contract
workers over the next few years. This shall ensure the
department is staffed with all full-time sworn certificated
firefighter paramedics.
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