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The state Assembly has approved CPF-supported SB 1019, disclosing cancer-causing flame retardants linked to job-related cancer in firefighters. the chemical companies are still trying to kill it in the Senate. Help us push back: CLICK HERE to contact your TODAY.
Napa City firefighters, working round the clock since early Sunday morning, are offering an extra helping hand for families hit hardest by this weekend’s 6.0 earthquake.
A well-funded Ventura County ballot initiative, backed by outside interests has dropped its plan to eliminate all defined benefit pensions, one day after it was declared invalid by the courts. In Sacramento, the Legislature returns for the end of the session and CPF is actively pursuing a pro-firefighter agenda.
It's official: An effort to wipe out secure public pensions in Ventura County is dead. Anti-retirement ideologues have dropped a legal effort to force the measure back on the ballot.
While the fight is still far from over, Ventura County firefighters and public workers are praising a judge's has ruled that a county initiative eliminating defined-benefit pensions violates state law and should be removed from the November ballot.
Firefighters and their families will be honored August 19th when the L.A. Dodgers battle the San Diego Padres on Firefighter Appreciation Night at Dodger Stadium. Special firefighter ticket packages are available, which include ticket, t-shirt and special pre-game party. Proceeds benefit California Fire Foundation.
A well-funded Ventura County ballot initiative, backed by outside interests including the Koch Brothers, has put the very concept of a secure retirement on trial. The measure, ticketed for the November ballot, would eliminate all defined benefit pensions, including those providing for the survivors of fallen firefighters and law enforcement officers.
Anti-retirement hard liners are acknowledging that their well-funded ballot campaign in Ventura County is part of a bigger agenda to eliminate secure pensions everywhere. "This is meant to be a template for other counties," says Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
Children of fallen firefighters can apply for up to $2,000 in scholarship grants through the Daniel A. Terry Scholarship Program. The 2014 deadline for applying is July 30.
As part of the effort to remove cancer-causing chemical flame retardants from furniture, the documentary "Toxic Hot Seat" will be screened this Wednesday in Berkeley. CPF is sponsoring legislation requiring labeling of cancer-causing chemical flame retardants in furniture.