Like those in Stockton, city residents in San Bernardino aren't faulting employees for the city's bankruptcy attempt. Instead, they are fingering years of fiscal mismanagement by local leaders.
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Some 4,000 local state and federal firefighters are battling a group of Northern California wildfires that collectively have burned nearly 40,000 acres.
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IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger has penned an op-ed for the Huffington Post debunking skewed study from Pew Centers. Bottom line: Funding "crisis" is overstated.
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Stop the Special Exemptions Act -- Prop. 32 on the November ballot would silence the voices of firefighters and working families, but give special exemptions that allow Super PACs and the super rich to spend unlimited money on campaigns.
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The new president of AFSCME says national attacks aimed at firefighters and other public workers is creating a "race to the bottom" that hurts the Middle Class.
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