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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Council members say they’re not attacking firefighters and they respect their work, but they don’t respect the fact the mayor and the union can’t come together in a time when money is so tight.
Councilman Kemp Conrad said, “When you got six times more people out on the first and last work day than you do on the one day where if you don’t come to work you get paid, then that shows something’s wrong”
A shocking number of firefighters are currently using their sick days to extend their weekends, but it seems no one is sick on holidays for the holiday pay. “People say, ‘Oh you’re attacking the firefighters.’ I’m not saying there is rampant abuse, I’m saying the policy is broken,” Conrad said.
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