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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...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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...A Ventura fire station shuttered last year amid steep city budget cuts could reopen by year's end. The city learned Wednesday it was awarded a three-year, multimillion federal grant to afford the nine firefighter-paramedic positions necessary to reopen and staff the fire house 24 hours a day.
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...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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