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\nAt National Review<\/i>, John Berlau explains how<\/a> the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act – better known to Freeom@Work<\/i> readers as the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill – threatens public safety:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut as with health care, liberals want to take away federalism in fire protection and force all American communities into a one-size-fits-all unionized model. The biggest congressional priority of the IAFF over the past few years has been the so-called Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act<\/a>, which would force unionization and collective bargaining on every one of the nation\u2019s local fire departments.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd far from delivering fire protection that is quick and efficient, this legislation is almost guaranteed to bring big-city slowdowns to every town. According to the watchdog Public Service Research Council, public-employee strikes quadruple, on average, in the years after state laws mandating public-sector collective bargaining take effect.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSo the question is, to paraphrase Krugman: Do you want to live in the kind of society in which this happens? Too bad if you answered \u201cno,\u201d because Krugman\u2019s allies are determined to take the choice of non-unionized fire departments away from fire fighters and homeowners.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nRead the whole thing here<\/a>. As Berlau notes, the consequences of union-instigated fire department strikes have been devastating:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tSimilar damage and destruction occurred in the 1975 fire fighters\u2019 strike in Kansas City, Mo. In The Municipal Doomsday Machine<\/a><\/i>, his 1970s expos\u00e9 of corruption in public-safety unions, journalist and National Review<\/span> founding editor Ralph de Toledano vividly described a city paralyzed by union violence. According to his and other accounts, when fires hit \u2014 in suspiciously high numbers, as in Memphis \u2014 non-striking firefighters found fire extinguishers that had been filled with flammable liquid, oxygen tanks that had been emptied, and fuel tanks of fire trucks that had been fouled with water.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\n\tThe 23-day Chicago fire<\/span> fighters\u2019 strike in 1980 was mostly free of the violence that plagued Memphis, Kansas City, and other places, but its duration made it much more deadly. On February 14, all but 400 of Chicago\u2019s 4,300 fire fighters gave the Windy City a valentine by walking off the job. They formed picket lines in front of its 120 fire stations, shutting down more than half of them.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the strike, \u201c24 people died in incidents involving calls for help from the fire department,\u201d the Chicago Tribune<\/i> would recount 20 years later. One tragedy that could have been avoided was the death of brother<\/span> and sister Tommie and Santana Jackson \u2014 ages 1 and 2, respectively \u2014 who perished in a fire in an apartment that, according to Time <\/i>magazine<\/a>, was \u201cjust half a block from a closed fire station.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThe risk of public safety strikes is just one more reason why the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill is such a bad idea. For more information on the bill, click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nAt National Review<\/i>, John Berlau explains how<\/a> the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act – better known to Freeom@Work<\/i> readers as the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill – threatens public safety:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut as with health care, liberals want to take away federalism in fire protection and force all American communities into a one-size-fits-all unionized model. 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