Posts Categorized: Labor
Fire Chief Wants to Replace Fire Engines With Pickup Trucks
THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, HAS DIRECTED the Fire Chief Laura Knapp to cut spending 10% over the next three years. So she has come up with a plan that the City Council loves to hear.
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Who Ya’ Gonna Call?
A FIREFIGHTER AT TIRUPATI AIRPORT in India had a quick job description ammendment last month when the two air traffic controllers failed to show up for work.
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A HOUSTON, TEXAS, FIRE CAPTAIN HAS RESIGNED following his arrest and incarceration for possessing child pornography and "inappropriate online contact" with an underage girl.
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Update – Mysterious Misconduct Lands Firefighter in Jail
A HALIFAX, MASSACHUSETTS, FIREFIGHTER was arrested Thursday afternoon on undisclosed charges and later released on bond.
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St. Louis Firefighters Go To Court To Get Their Children Into School
THE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, FIREFIGHTERS are in a jam thanks to the city's oppressive residency requirements.
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Paramedic Steals Drugs, Goes to Jail, Keeps Job
A QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, PARAMEDIC STILL HAS his job and nobody knows why.
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COLLINSVILLE, ILLINOIS, IS ONCE AGAIN LOOKING for a new fire chief since their most recent appointee has resigned before he showed up for his first day of work.
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Problematic Firefighters
A MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, FIREFIGHTER WAS ARRAIGNED Friday in Federal District Court on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
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Pontiac, Michigan, Chooses to Eliminate Entire Fire Department
On Wednesday the firefighters union and the emergency manager, Lou Schimmel, came to a coerced agreement to cancel the firefighters' labor contract leading to the foregone decision to eliminate the entire fire department on February 1
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Promotional Opportunities in Highwood – Update
You will probably recall the story when reminded that is the tiny town that has no fire chief and assigns the deputy chief to run the show.
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Moline Lops 12 Firefighters
THE MOLINE, ILLINOIS, CITY COUNCIL met Tuesday night and, after several weeks of debate, voted to eliminate 12 firefighter/paramedic positions and turn the city's EMS responsibility over to a private ambulance company
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Kentucky Firefighters Fight to Tell the Truth
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, FIREFIGHTERS ARE ADAMANT about informing the citizens about the dangers of station "brownouts."
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Can You Trust Your Firefighters?
THE CLEVELAND, OHIO, CITY COUNCIL is going ahead with plans to install timeclocks in the firehouses to record the firefighters' attendance at their workplaces.
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Fire Marshal Suspended After Brandishing Gun in Firehouse
THE EDMOND, OKLAHOMA, ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF has been on paid administrative leave for nearly two months following a complaint by a firefighter.
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Holyoke Update
False Alarm-Calling Fire Chief Gets Court Date
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THE MONARCH FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT in St. Louis County, Missouri, fired four of their top officers Tuesday night.
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Hard Core Labor-Management Conflict in France
THE FIREFIGHTERS OF HERAULT, FRANCE, have had enough of their autocratic boss, Colonel Risdorfer, head of the SDIS 34.
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French FF’s Protest Degradation
Politicians Want To Lower Standards and Wages
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Firefighter Job Openings Coming
THE SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS have reached the end-point of promises from their volunteers and voted last week to hire 50 new firefighters.
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A LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE CAPTAIN was arrested Wednesday afternoon when he tried to purchase heroin from an undercover police officer.
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EMS Job Opening in New Mexico
SUPERIOR AMBULANCE OF LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO, has an opening for EMT after they fired one of their drivers following his arrest in a teen sex sting.
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Cleveland to Merge Fire and EMS Agencies
CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAYOR FRANK JACKSON announced at a press conference Tuesday that the city has begun a plan to merge the Cleveland EMS agency into the Fire Department ....
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THIRTY-TWO YEARS AFTER THEY came to work together, Topeka, Kansas', two top fire officers will be retiring on the same day at the end of this year.
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Like Father, Like Son: Gone
THE LIVERMORE FALLS, MAINE, Board of Selectmen voted to uphold the town manager's decision to terminate Assistent Fire Cheif Ron Leclerc for insubordination.
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Fire Captain Steals $63K From His Own Union
A SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, FIRE CAPTAIN sits in jail this morning after being charged with stealing approx. $63,000 from his IAFF Local's bank account, leaving it depleted.
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