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IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger has penned an op-ed for the Huffington Post debunking skewed study from Pew Centers. Bottom line: Funding "crisis" is overstated.
Like those in Stockton, city residents in San Bernardino aren't faulting employees for the city's bankruptcy attempt. Instead, they are fingering years of fiscal mismanagement by local leaders.
Looks like Californians aren't as crazed to slash retirement security as some would have you believe. A new independent poll shows more than half believe pension levels are about right or too low. Voters also back public employee collective bargaining.
Proposition 32 on the November ballot -- the Special Exemptions Act -- would choke off the effective voice of you and your fellow firefighters, all the while protecting the rights of corporations and the super rich.
Critics are often at the forefront of pension reform, but can tangible solutions arise by cutting from the livelihoods of thousands of public employees? Before we hurt the ones who have dedicated their lives to help others, take the time to understand how the system works.
Uniformed firefighters from Stockton and San Gabriel joined medical researchers, furniture manufacturers and environmental groups at a legislative hearing to call for an end to the use of dangerous toxins in furniture.
CPF- and IAFF-backed efforts to get cancer-causing toxins out of fire retardants got a boost when Gov. Jerry Brown issued a directive to revise California’s decades-old flammability standard.
Ten Years Honoring California's Fallen -- Part 1 of a series of profiles commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the California Firefighters Memorial in Sacramento.
Fresno firefighters responded to a major industrial fire in Calwa, near Fresno. City, county, CAL FIRE members all responded. Photo gallery from the Fresno Bee.
Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Morain says the deceptive Special Exemptions Act, headed for the November ballot, will make California the next anti-union battleground.