Unions have their own “licensed physicians” who will hand ANYONE a “sick” slip out on the street. All you have to do is ask for one.
Corruption in your back yard ... who’da thunkit? This is particularly unpleasant, though, because one wants to respect firefighters (and police) on principle. It’s truly disappointing when they’re lazy union drones.
That entire pay scale is nuts.150,000 in pay, 52,000 to pension and 20 odd to health. I’ll bet no private sector 300,000 $ a year employee gets 52 grand toward retirement/pension, the firemen are hosing the taxpayers out there.
According to the article, these firefighters work only 10 days a month with each workday being 24 hours.
My question is when they take a sick day do they get charged 24 hours for each sick day or only 8 hours?
Ha! If I pulled anything like that i would have been brought up on charges. If you were sick for 3 days you needed a doctors excuse. And you better be seriously injured or have pneumonia or worse. Expect someone to come to your house and check on you. Don;t even think about being seen out in public or you were losing 2 weeks pay.
Call in sick a day before or after scheduled days off more than once in two years and you lose two weeks pay for “developing a pattern” of sick time abuse.
Know what my union did for us? NOTHING.
I take that back, one time a shop steward gave me some Alka Seltzer cold plus to make it through a midnight shift.
Not all Unions are Created Equal.