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OGDENSBURG — Despite a rapidly approaching deadline, the city is moving full speed ahead with a plan to collect its own sales tax.

Jason Bouchard, president of the Ogdensburg Professional Firefighters, Local 1799, shared the letter publicly Friday. “The city has asked the Union forego decades of collective bargaining to save our jobs from elimination, a decision the city leaders themselves have made,” the letter from union members to Mr. Bouchard reads. “The majority of these individuals voted to violate our contract before they ever came to us with one proposal to stop it. They have used the five of us as h...

Jason Bouchard, president of the Ogdensburg Professional Firefighters, Local 1799, shared the letter publicly Friday. “The city has asked the Union forego decades of collective bargaining to save our jobs from elimination, a decision the city leaders themselves have made,” the letter from union members to Mr. Bouchard reads. “The majority of these individuals voted to violate our contract before they ever came to us with one proposal to stop it. They have used the five of us as h...