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I assume firefighters are not unionized in California? Otherwise I imagine the union getting pretty upset that unskilled, non union members are being paid to d
by giarc 8y ago
I assume firefighters are not unionized in California? Otherwise I imagine the union getting pretty upset that unskilled, non union members are being paid to do the job of union members.
- dave_null 8y agoSome departments are. There are two major unions that my department was considering when unions were brought up, the International Association of Firefighters and Service Employees International Union. The IAFF has 30,254 members as of 2015 per the Office of Labor Management Standards and they are roughly 1.1 million firefighters in the US. Ultimately, my department decided not to unionize. I don't actually recall firefighter I worked with from my area being a member of a union as part of being a firefighter, most of them were union through ambulance companies.
- hexane360 8y agoThat's a pretty bad assumption. . .
- giarc 8y agoI guess I should have said... I assume the firefighters they are working beside are not unionized. I've never seen a union allow un-unionized workers do the job of one of their members.
- bsder 8y agoEven if they were, I can't imagine them saying much. When fire season starts in California, you couldn't produce enough hands to get the job done at basically any price.
- Ninjaneered 8y agoCal Fire is unionized, Local 2881. When I was a seasonal firefighter for Cal Fire (CDF at the time), every figherfighter had some level of union support, but there was "Full Share" and "Fair Share" options.