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N.J. public worker pension debt among the worst in U.S., report says
New Jersey's public pension debt accounted for about 5 percent of the nearly $1 trillion funding shortfall in public-sector retirement systems across the country,...
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  • Steven Schnaudt Our governor continually vetoes the budgets that are passed by the NJ Senate and Assembly which contained the funding to make full pension payments this year and last year. He is intentionally tanking the pension because he wants public workers in a de...See More
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  • Tony San Felippo Empty promises from their full bellied Governor. Sounds like the same thing Walker just tried to pull here in Wisconsin. Politicians need to quit thinking they can take successful pension plans from city workers, so they can borrow it out to their buddy's for kickbacks. Leave a good thing alone! Prayers to the Brothers and Sisters in NJ and every other state that has a criminal for a governor!
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Detroit firefighters lag in medical training
Struggles in testing delay city’s plan to certify all as first responders
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NBC 10 I-Team: At least 40 firefighters retire after Elorza's announcement
Forty-four firefighters retired as of Wednesday, with many of them leaving due to Mayor Jorge Elorza’s platoon plan.
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  • Garrett Lindgren Elorza said the city will “absolutely” still come out ahead overall. "For every firefighter that’s retiring, within a three platoon system, this is actually savings to the city.” This is the same way the city of N.Y. looked at mass retirements after th...See More
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  • Dan Martin The real story here is the use of a shift change for a 25% reduction in work force. You think the mayors office is adding staffing to companies? The actual schedule is a red herring and all firemen everywhere should be against the brothers doing more with less.
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Promoting Diversity Among First Responders
On my first Labor Day as labor secretary, I visited a firehouse in Fairfax, Virginia, with a dedicated public servant named James Ridley, the Senior Deputy for Training at the International Associa...
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Our thoughts today are with our brothers and sisters in Denver following the line of duty death today.
Denver firefighter dies from injuries from falling through skylight
A Denver firefighter who was injured when he fell through a skylight battling a Dumpster blaze late last month has died
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Mansfield, TX Local 3599 member Daniel Gaskey's quick actions put a stop to an attempted gas station robbery last month.
Watch Texas Firefighter Take Down Would-Be Robber
Mansfield firefighter and former Marine Daniel Gaskey wrestled a knife-wielding man to the ground during a robbery at a store on June 26.
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