FDNY/COVID: Problem Solved
Warning: Stop here if you hate reading about Long Island Volunteers.
It’s ironic that Ed Kelly, president of the IAFF, has our union on a Kamikaze mission for thousands of the least trade-union-minded firefighters in the U.S.
Why?
Just months ago, the leadership of the Uniformed Firefighter’s Association, Local 94, were considering dropping out of the IAFF.
(Local 854, the Uniformed Fire Officer’s Association, are union strong.)
Now, Kelly looks like a clown in the Herald Square Macy’s window as he grovels at 94’s feet over an issue that even a union neophyte could have sensed was a mega-loser.
Don’t pick an issue where suffering has been universal and try to set yourself up to play by different rules.
That’s why the public is calling “bullshit” as they ought.
Also, only New York firefighters could make Bill de Blasio look not only good, nay great, but positively gubernatorial; he thanks you muchly on the eve of his announcement.
They’ve also shown Eric Adams, incoming mayor, the depths of firefighter selfishness.
It’s the Idiots Trifecta.
But, to the matter at hand.
It’s no secret that a principal reason why there are virtually no professional firefighters on Long Island is that hundreds and hundreds of off-duty FDNY members have locked them out of a job by volunteering off-duty.
Any other municipality in the U.S. with a population of 3,000,000 would have around 3,000 career firefighters and paramedics; Nassau and Suffolk counties, on Long Island, have basically zilch.
Let the vaccine deniers leave FDNY, go to Nassau and Suffolk counties and at long last create what is long overdue: professional fire/rescue protection.
Problemo solved.
Let’s be honest.
There should be no union sympathy for moonlighting scabs, but there Ed Kelly is, shining their shoes anyway.
If this is “taking our union back” the worst surely lies ahead.
