So you are saying that union firefighters should collect their paychecks but not actually put out fires unless they get exorbitant pay and benefits?
Here’s an idea. If they don’t think they are being compensated adequately, THEY COULD QUIT AND FIND REAL JOBS.
Nobody except the criminal labor unions are forcing them to do anything.
I’m saying when they all ‘quit to find real jobs’ you can run around with a cheapshit Walmart fire extinguisher putting out the fire on your kid’s backs — God forbid.
“If they don’t think they are being compensated adequately, THEY COULD QUIT AND FIND REAL JOBS.”
That’s right; in my town the paid firemen sleep away their shifts in the firehouse then go work other jobs because they are all rested-up (they are a holdover from a time when we used to have a lot of industry, which died decades ago). So many of those firemen preach about the need for paid versus volunteer firemen when it come to contract negotiations, then go back to their wives and children sleeping in towns further west that have volunteer firemen (and the corresponding lower taxes).
Paid firemen are a thing of the past; fire safety has made them obsolete. Combining those skills with EMT or law enforcement might make sense (though the unions would oppose it), but paying people to sit around waiting for an increasingly rare occurrence is so 20th century. The money has dried up...