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CO Unit Meeting
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UA 290 Training Center
Redmond
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Tangent
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From http://www.iaff.org/
Liberty Mutual-Hurricane Earl Client Announcement
| September 2, 2010 -- Liberty Mutual and the IAFF Financial Corporation (IAFF-FC) are actively preparing for the potential arrival of Hurricane Earl. Your safety is the utmost priority, so please make sure that you, your members and their families stay up to date on the latest hurricane information available, and are following all evacuation announcements issued for your area. |
| Struggling Cities Shut Firehouses in Budget Crisis
 | August 27, 2010 -- Fire departments around the nation are cutting jobs, closing firehouses and increasingly resorting to ?rolling brownouts? in which they shut different fire companies on different days as the economic downturn forces many cities and towns to make deep cuts that are slowing their responses to fires and other emergencies. |
| IAFF Condemns Uniontown Mayor for Plan to Lay Off Fire Fighters
| August 26, 2010 -- IAFF delegates meeting in San Diego unanimously passed an emergency resolution condemning Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Mayor Edward Fike for announcing his intent to eliminate the City?s entire career fire department. Fike no doubt picked the wrong time to mess with union fire fighters. As it happened, members of Uniontown Local 955 were convening in San Diego this week with about 3,500 of their IAFF brothers and sisters to vote on critical resolutions and forge stronger union bonds.
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| MDA Telethon Scheduled for September 5-6
| August 26, 2010? The 2010 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon is scheduled for September 5-6, 2010, and will be broadcast live from the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Telethon will air on more than 170 television stations and on the MDA web site. |
| IAFF 50th Convention Opens in San Diego
| IAFF delegates from the United States and Canada gathered August 23 at the San Diego Convention Center for the IAFF 50th Convention, launching the week?s important business. The emotional ceremony reminded all in attendance of the accomplishments and sacrifices members have made and laid out plans to overcome the challenges ahead.
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| IAFF Announces 2010 Media Awards Contest Winners
| August 18, 2010 -- Two hundred and forty-five entries in the 2010 Media Awards Contest attest to the fact that for today?s fire fighter, truth is stranger than fiction. People and animals, buildings and systems fail and endanger others in unique and largely unpredictable ways. A seemingly infinite series of natural and manmade catastrophes cause fire fighters everywhere to give their all, all day and all night. The Media Awards Contest honors communications, reporting and photography that best portray the professional and dangerous work of fire fighters and emergency medical personnel in the United States and Canada. |
| 2010 SAFER Application Period Begins August 16
| August 16, 2010 -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will begin accepting applications for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grants beginning August 16, 2010. The application period will close September 17, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Applications for $420 million in SAFER funding will be available through the Assistance to Firefighters (FIRE Act) web site, along with program guidance. |
| California Wildfire Study: Staffing Affects Efficiency
| August 13, 2010 -- A study conducted by San Diego State University on wildfire fire fighting and staffing shows that lower levels of staffing result in higher physical stress and significantly lower efficiencies for initial attack effectiveness. The most dramatic gains in efficiency - by as much as 50 percent - occurred when the number of personnel on a hose lay was increased from two to three fire fighters. Additional increases were observed when comparing three- to four-person crews. |
| Can Public Pension Benefits Be Taken Away?
 | August 11, 2010 -- State legislators are beginning to challenge one of the ironclad tenets of public pension policy: that states cannot legally reduce pension benefits for current and future retirees. Lawmakers in Colorado, Minnesota and South Dakota voted earlier this year to limit cost-of-living increases they previously had promised to thousands of current and future retirees. Not surprisingly, retirees in each state have filed lawsuits asking judges to restore their annual benefit increases to what they were previously. Lawmakers, state retirement systems, public employee unions and others in the pension policy arena are closely watching the outcome of the legal challenges. |
| Baltimore Police and Fire Unions Fight Back
| August 2, 2010 -- Angered by the way they're treated by the mayor and City Council, unions representing fire fighters and police officers put up an attack ad on a downtown billboard. The sign reads, "Welcome to Baltimore. Home to a Mayor & City Council who turned their backs on our Police & Firefighters." |
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www.profirefighter.com
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Training
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September 8th
Aerial Lift Training
Central Oregon
September 25th
First Aid-CPR
Central Oregon
October 5th-28th
OSHA 30
See schedule for details
October 23
First Aid/CPR
More information is
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www.cjatc.org
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| Unit Meetings |
Salem Unit
Location: Salem Heights Community Center; 3505 Liberty Rd. S; Salem
When: 3rd Thursday – odd months
Time: 5:30 pm
Eugene Unit
Location: LU290 Training Hall; 2861 Pierce Parkway; Springfield
When: 3rd Wednesday – odd months
Time: 5:30 pm
Joint Unit
Location: Central Electrical Training Center; 33309 Hwy 99E; Tangent
When: 3rd Thursday – even months
Time: 5:30 pm
Central Oregon
Location: IBEW/UA Training Center; 2161 SW 1st St.; Redmond
When: 2nd Thursday – every month
Time: 5:30 pm
Retirees Lunch
Location: Old Country Buffet; Lancaster East Plaza
When: 2nd Monday – every month
Time: 11:45 am
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2010 Labor Friendly
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Peter Courtney (SD-11,D) Salem
Sen. Richard Devlin (SD-19,D)
Sen. Lee Beyer (SD-6,D)
Dan Rayfield (SD-8,D)
Claudia Kyle for (HD-14,D)
Brian Clem for (HD-14,D)
Val Hoyle for (HD-14)
Susan Sokol Blossor (HD-24,D)
Ted Wheeler (State Treasurer)
Pat Riggs-Henson for Lane Co. Commissioner
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