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LOCAL 1014 MEMBERS GET ACCESS TO 401K TODAY!
After a hard-fought multi-year battle with the County, the Coalition of County Unions bargained to get access to the County's 401(k) savings and investment account. The bargaining was co-chaired by Local 1014, and through political advocacy and many days at the bargaining table, we secured this amazing benefit. This will allow our members, along with the 457 plan, to save and invest for their families' futures. Please take the time to log in to your EMPOWER account and review both your 457 and now your 401 (k) plans to ensure your money is going where you want it to go, with sound financial advice to shelter taxes on your future retirement income. We are extremely proud to have fought for this benefit, and we know our members' lives improve when we have a good salary and benefits, and the tools to use those earnings to provide a generous, hard-earned retirement. Review the 401(k) Savings Participant Notification and the IRS limits that apply to the County of Los Angeles plans. The 401(k) Savings Participant Notification discusses the 401(k) Savings Plan that will be available to your members starting January 2, 2026. As well as several options on how to enroll, including 17 webinar options available to all eligible members throughout January. We encourage our members to attend one of the education webinars listed below.
Links to upcoming 401(k) Savings Enrollment virtual webinars are below. Click to register. All times below are in Pacific Standard Time.
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| Tuesday, January 6th, 9 a.m. |
Tuesday, January 6th, 12 p.m. |
Tuesday, January 6th, 2 p.m. |
| Wednesday, January 7th, 9 a.m. |
Wednesday, January 7th, 2 p.m. |
Friday, January 9th, 9 a.m. |
| Friday, January 9th, 12 p.m. |
Friday, January 9th, 2 p.m. |
Wednesday, January 14th, 12 p.m. |
| Thursday, January 15th, 9 a.m. |
Thursday, January 22nd, 9 a.m. |
Thursday, January 22nd, 12 p.m. |
| Tuesday, January 27th, 12 p.m. |
Wednesday, January 28th, 9 a.m. |
Wednesday, January 28th, 2 p.m. |
| Thursday, January 29th, 9 a.m. |
Thursday, January 29th, 2 p.m. |
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FIRE STATION 43 UNDER ATTACK BY OUR OWN ADMINISTRATION!
Due to the diligence of the members assigned to Station 43, Local 1014 was alerted and mobilized its political leverage to stop this project. Local 1014, alongside California Professional Firefighters, is actively working with federal, state, and local lawmakers to enact regulatory safeguards to protect firefighters and the public.
This is unbelievable and unconscionable on behalf of all firefighters, much less our very own, for any level of Department management to consider such an approval. This flies in the face of words from our Department leaders about health and safety, and will not be tolerated.
Much like the cell phone antennas, Local 1014 will not rest until this issue is mitigated and a policy is established that treats Fire Stations as residential areas, just like the communities we serve, for the purposes of approving commercial businesses, especially hazardous occupancies. There is a long history of detrimental career-ending health impacts from lithium-ion battery fires, both in cars and in storage facilities, and the CPF is leading the way, with Local 1014 pushing legislation to protect our firefighters through two Bills signed into Law by the Governor after getting them through both the Assembly and Senate.
SB 283 (Laird): Battery Energy Storage Facilities - Given the recent increase in battery energy storage facility fires, it is clear that policy action is necessary. CPF is collaborating with the IBEW to strengthen the statewide permitting process at the California Energy Commission. This bill will require that project applicants meet and confer with fire agencies, require fire inspections be a part of the proposed project, and require the Office of the State Fire Marshal to consider facility location during the next update of the building standards. Status: Signed by the Governor on October 6th
AB 841 (Patel): Lithium-ion Battery Health and Safety - CPF members are continually responding to fires involving lithium-ion batteries, whether they are vehicles, homes, or large energy storage systems. After a series of injuries, it is clear that more assessment and recommendations are needed on updates to personal protective equipment (PPE), PPE cleaning practices, and health screening when it comes to response to these fires and post-fire practices. This measure will direct the Office of the State Fire Marshal to bring together experts to make recommendations on these core issues in order to enhance protections for firefighters.
Please also see our Joint statement with ILWU regarding the safety of both our memberships.
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CONTRACT UPDATE AND BINDING ARBITRATION
While we closed out the year with minimal but meaningful progress on our salary tables with bargaining units 601 and 602, it has now been 12 months since our contract expired, and with non-sworn series 603/604 bargaining now underway, our entire workforce is at the table. We have stood in solidarity and in position with ALL PUBLIC SAFETY UNIONS to include ALADS, PPOA, and LACOLA, representing Sheriffs and Lifeguards, as we push to get our collective contracts done.
We are also in a coalition of public safety unions working to put a measure before LA County to bring our members BINDING ARBITRATION for contract issues. SAFER LA is our coalition of safety unions banded together, now working with the BOS to embrace our proposal, giving us a tool to leverage when contract issues, tables, or findings become barriers to negotiating contracts or enforcing contract items.
This powerful tool would be put forth for consideration in November of this year and would be a game-changer for our political action and legislative advocacy work to pressure tables to settle fairly and substantively, not strictly politically. Both are needed and will be needed for the long term as we compete for funding and consider how funds are spent in our work. Please see our website and our joint letter to our collective membership, highlighting our solidarity and our joint position at this time as we continue bargaining at the table with a brand-new Acting CEO.
Sheriff Luna has begun his support to help ALADS and PPOA on binding arbitration and their contract, and similarly, we have asked Chief Marrone for his support on both issues. He will need to move further into the public eye as we move to get this done, and put his money where his mouth is on member support. We are confident that, like the Sheriff, he will see the value and, in a meaningful and powerful way, advocate with us for our contract to be finished fairly and substantively for the people working for him and the people we serve.
Hold on, buckle up, it’s going to get bumpy. We will keep you informed as to what we need you to do to help carry our message to the BOS, the CEO, and the public when the time comes. |
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NEW POSITIONS IN 2026 - INCREASES TO STAFFING LEVELS ON ENGINES AND IN THE TRAINING SERVICES SECTION!
As a result of Local 1014’s hard work to pass Measure E, 4-person staffing on our remaining 3-0 Engines, and the first six permanent Training Services Section Captains positions should start around February 1. The multi-million-dollar campaign will net approximately $160 million per year to be used for infrastructure, tools and equipment, engines and trucks, squads, and, most importantly, STAFFING! These staffing increases are not only historic but also imperative for a department of our size with our responses, call volume, and hazard levels in all we do.
We want to thank Chief Marrone for his support and partnership as we implement the plan to bring our remaining engines to 4-0 staffing, add special event staffing positions, and training services section positions in this first year. More staffing increases with 20-25 engines per year for the next 5-6 years will take place to arrive at every engine company in the County at 4-0 staffing.
Thank you to all our members, including the Chief Officers, who choose to be part of the team, continue to pay dues to Local 1014, and stand with us in all the fights for staffing, contracts, and laws affecting all our memberships. |
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EA-436 — REVISED AND AMENDED FOLLOWING LOCAL 1014 ACTION
Despite holiday recalls, mud and debris flow responses, and members recovering both mentally and physically, executive management chose to roll out a new national incident reporting system on December 29, 2025, with a mandatory completion deadline of January 2, 2026.
After generations of using NFIRS, the Department transitioned to NERIS—a change that can benefit reporting and streamline workloads. Yet management failed to provide adequate training time, rolling out EA-436 with a punitive compliance window.
Local 1014 will not stand by while management’s failure to plan places unnecessary stress on our members. We objected—and we forced a correction. EA-436 has been revised and amended after Local 1014 pushed back on Department Management’s initial determination that two days was sufficient time to complete mandatory online training for a critical Fire and EMS reporting system—a system directly tied to department statistics and funding.
We thank Director Cullen for identifying the original EA and acknowledge the Department’s eventual agreement to amend the compliance deadline. Following Local 1014’s objection to the unreasonable timeframe, the Department has extended the mandatory training completion date to January 31, 2026.
All members are encouraged to complete the training and evaluate whether the new National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS) improves upon the previous ePCR and NFIRS systems, which for years forced our members to enter data multiple times to close reports, falsely call or estimate information simply to monthly close incidents, and work around known system failures the Department acknowledged but failed to correct
This situation once again highlights the disconnect between executive management and line personnel. Online mandates and administrative burdens continue to interfere with the actual work of firefighting—where training, response, and public safety matter most. |
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YEAR-END MESSAGE TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM LOCAL 1014
Our heartfelt, powerful message was sent to each Supervisor as we closed out 2025 and entered 2026. Our members have held it together under the most incredibly taxing circumstances, both operationally with the fires and floods and mountain of EMS calls, including impact from the homeless situation, and also with staffing shortages and lack of hiring and promotional plans until we took action to push hard for these things. We deserve to be appropriately recognized for our efforts.
We are proud and have an amazing standing with the public we serve, and ultimately the BOS, with whom we work every day, and partner with, are also servants to the communities and our communities and will hear our voice even louder and in solidarity with those we serve in 2026.
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In Solidarity,
President Dave Gillotte and the Local 1014 Executive Board |
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