Next month marks the 10th anniversary of the attacks on America that cost 343 FDNY firefighters their lives. CPF has prepared a special web page with links to commemorative events happening around California.
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...Vallejo's fire department is set to hire nine new firefighters for two years, buy two new fire engines and reopen a station following City Council approval Tuesday night. The new fire staffing will come from a federal Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant, the second the city has received in recent years.
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...California’s firefighters and other hard-working public employees have a new voice for retirement security on the CalPERS Board of Administration. According to the unofficial vote count, Michael Bilbrey received 117,034 votes while retired state employee and former FBI Agent Richard Ross received 78,718 votes.
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...Labor Under Attack: From pensions to privatization to Paycheck Deception, anti-labor ideologues are using the economic crisis to attack working families.
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...As California closed a gaping budget deficit this year with sweeping cuts to numerous agencies, it saved $34 million by cutting 750 seasonal CAL FIRE firefighters. That means one less person per engine unit to haul thousands of feet of hose lines and share the exhausting physical rigors of battling wildfires.
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