Walker Over Coffee
Wisconsin Gov. Walker will appear on Fox News Sunday today to defend his assault on middle-class jobs and workers’ right to bargain collectively. (Check local listings for time and station.) Let’s hear what you think. Answer back at the We Are One solidarity page on Facebook. (It may be hard, but keep it civil.)
Cities Cut Fire Services, Risk Lives
There’s no dispute that economically strapped cities are facing large and difficult budget shortfalls. But when municipalities try to close the budget gap by shuttering firehouses and laying off firefighters, they are “playing Russian roulette,” says Fire Fighters (IAFF) President Harold Schaitberger.
Whatever you do that results in increasing response, you are absolutely playing Russian roulette.
The union is working with Congress to provide cities with some financial help to protect public safety jobs.
According to a recent USA Today story, the layoff of 22 firefighters and reduction of operations at two Flint, Mich., fire stations may have played a role in a fatal April house fire.
