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City council not responsible for pay issue

The pay issue discussed in this article was resolved Friday evening, pending approval by the Morgantown City Council and firefighters. Last week, The Dominion Post asked the members of council about their role in the issue. While the matter appears resolved, the views council members have of ...

Morgantown, firefighters resolve pay dispute

MORGANTOWN -- Friday evening, members of the International Association of Firefighters Local 313 and The City of Morgantown jointly announced they resolved the firefighters' claim that they were entitled shift differential pay, pending approval of terms by Morgantown City Council. In a ...

Morgantown Municipal Airport conducts multi-agency exercise

MORGANTOWN — When people count on you to run into harm’s way to aid the fallen or neutralize the threat, even practice is serious business. And that’s what took place Thursday as the Morgantown Municipal Airport conducted a triennial exercise, a large-scale training scenario to test ...

Fire civil service commission to hold hearing on pay dispute

MORGANTOWN — Morgantown's firefighters are earning about $2,000 less a year after the city changed their pay. Morgantown said it's just applying the shift differential pay rules correctly after discovering an error. Firefighters say it's retaliation over their refusal to take the city's ...

Appearances matter

The City of Morgantown is getting a lesson in the importance of appearances. International Association of Firefighters Local 313 has accused the city of retaliating against Morgantown’s firefighters by cutting the department’s shift differential after the firefighters union rejected a ...