More than three years after the last pandemic emergency order, firefighters are still negotiating their hazard payments with the city.

A few months after agreeing to provide $41 million in Covid hazard pay to 3,650 unionized city workers, Honolulu still hasn’t reached an agreement with its firefighters on how much they will receive.

During a meeting on Tuesday, the city offered $7,500 to each of Honolulu’s approximately 1,000 firefighters who worked during the pandemic. But Hawaii Fire Fighters Association President Bobby Lee wants more for his members.

Firefighters and bus drivers were excluded from the earlier payments approved in May because their union contracts didn’t have concrete language requiring hazard pay. The city said it has offered the same amount to bus drivers — far le

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