Labor and Union Issues
The measure contains a fire attack restriction, a limit on transit speeds and a thermal imaging camera requirement
“Now we’re going to be able to achieve a much more robust recruitment drive,” said Ralph Sicuro, president of Pittsburgh Firefighters Union Local #1
Firefighters fanned out across Baker City to talk with people after the city announced that it intends to stop ambulance service in September
He alleged the department does not follow standard operating guidelines and “thrives on favoritism, nepotism, false records or no records at all”
Nearly 750 applications were turned in for five entry-level positions
A discrepancy in time and the city’s policy of “rolling brownouts” may have played a role in the death of a 12-year-old autistic boy
Local IAFF president calls cuts ‘a Russian roulette game’
Whether they will actually be allowed to smoke, inside or outside of fire stations, remains in question
Police and firefighters would take five furlough days, which means a two percent pay reduction
The brownouts affect 23 of Philadelphia’s 56 fire stations
The West Allis Police and Fire Commission approved a policy prohibiting anyone, including employees, from smoking on Fire Department property
The U.S. Department of Justice sued the city in 2007, alleging the exam had SAT-like questions that failed to measure firefighting ability
The city has the right to reduce manning from five to four firefighters at 49 of the 194 engine companies when sickouts exceed 7.5 percent
Sal Cassano promised to check up on retired firefighters participating in physically demanding activities while claiming disability
Personnel will be redeployed to fill in for others who are out sick or on vacation, or to fill in spots left open through attrition
The department is being forced to mothball one fire station, three engines and one truck and sack the personnel attached to each
Around the nation, cities struggling financially have resorted to brownouts, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Sacramento
Richard Sears may be removed from safety committee after he went on a ‘needlessly aggressive, antagonistic and threatening’ verbal attack
Bloomberg warned that the city’s pension bills will lead to a crisis; firefighters claiming health issues partake in marathons, martial arts
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Daniel Brock says the city violated its charter when the mayor publicly dismissed him in a speech
She allegedly sent false e-mails under the name of a paramedic, pretending he committed homosexual sex acts in the ambulance building
The 54-year-old veteran administrator is allegedly providing consultation services under the title ‘interim chief’
Three companies will be closed during the eight-hour day shifts and two more during the 14-hour night shifts
Joseph Whaley, a 35-year-old Army captain, says he may be too old to join the department after errors are straightened out
FDNY doctors determined he was suffering from asthma and other lung ailments; he said he was told to retire despite wanting to serve
She said she was passed up for promotion because of her gender and targeted when she was the only person from the department to be laid off
State law requires the city and fire unions go through a binding arbitration process if they reach an impasse in contract negotiations
The death of Bentley Do reignited public uproar over so-called brownouts within San Diego’s Fire-Rescue Department
Thomas McDougall, who worked at Ladder Company 117 in Astoria, Queens, was fired in 2008 for cocaine use
A new crew would be trained to handle emergencies such as plane crashes, but it would be part of the airport instead of the county Fire Department
Union leaders say only two firefighters, instead of three, on trucks jeopardizes public safety and runs counter to national standards