Houston firefighters’ wallets just got a little fatter, after a Texas judge on Tuesday denied the city’s request to stay a voter-approved amendment requiring firefighters to be paid as much as police.
Read moreThe Houston Police Department won’t have the manpower to investigate home burglaries and car wrecks if the cash-strapped city is forced to lay off hundreds of officers to help finance a voter-approved pay raise for firefighters, the police chief testified Friday.
Read moreIn the first decision of its new term, the Supreme Court agreed Tuesday with two Arizona firefighters who argued that a federal age-discrimination law applies to state and local government entities with less than 20 employees.
Read moreThree dozen firefighters who responded to the Aliso Canyon methane blowout near Los Angeles — the largest gas leak in U.S. history — sued Southern California Gas and Sempra Energy in superior court Monday, accusing them of knowingly exposing them to carcinogenic chemicals, negligence, fraudulent concealment, and other charges.
Read moreThe Minnesota Court of Appeals found Monday that the city of Brainerd violated labor rules when it laid off all full-time firefighters to dissolve their union amid collective bargaining.
Read moreThe fate of age-discrimination claims against an Arizona fire department hangs in the balance after the Supreme Court spent a hearing Monday dissecting a statute’s use of the words “also means.”
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The London Fire Brigade wants the media to stop depicting firefighters as hunky sex objects.
Read moreA local firefighters’ union claims Milwaukee has violated amendments to the city charter and the union’s collective-bargaining agreement by proposing to exclude agreed-upon pension offset payments from the calculation of their retirement benefits.
Read moreAttorneys representing five black Georgia firefighters who claim they suffered racial discrimination and a hostile work environment asked the 11th Circuit on Thursday to reverse a district court ruling dismissing their case.
Read moreA massive brush fire erupted near the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon, sending thick plumes of smoke into the air as firefighters hurried to contain the blaze.
Read moreHell-bent on keeping women out of their station, Houston firefighters urinated all over their female colleagues’ dorm and wrote death threats on the walls, the Justice Department claims in a lawsuit seeking to strengthen the city’s anti-harassment policies.
Read moreA fire department violated a firefighter’s free-speech rights when it restricted his ability to include religious comments in work emails and forums, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Read moreA probationary fireman who lost his job last year after bringing a watermelon as a gift to his new black co-workers sued the city of Detroit, claiming he was singled out for punishment because he is white.
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In a blow to Iowa’s public labor unions, a state judge upheld sweeping changes limiting the rights of more than 180,000 government workers to collectively bargain for health insurance, better pay and other benefits.
Read moreA teenage boy was shot in the chest at a party. As a friend tried to save him and called 911 for help, an Albuquerque firefighter hung up on her because she used a curse word, and the boy died, his parents say in a lawsuit against the firefighter.
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A Houston pension-reform plan designed to eliminate $8.2 billion in debt is now in limbo as the local firefighters’ retirement fund sued city officials, seeking an injunction to block the plan that was approved by state lawmakers.
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Houston’s mayor is depending on the Texas Legislature to pass bills needed to rein in the city’s pension debt, but amendments to appease Houston firefighters have cast doubt on the mayor’s assumption lawmakers will approve his pension-reform plan.
Read moreAt Day 1 on the job, a New York City firefighter claims in a federal complaint, four naked firemen confronted the rookie in the gym for a surprise “teabagging.”
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A Chicago police officer claims he was demoted after winning a $1.3 million judgment against the city for its failure to arrest the former fire commissioner’s son on battery charges.
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