The Star on the ongoing MAST Hostile Takeover Fallout Hot Mess: Kansas City won't increase ambulance workers' 24-hour shifts
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- The Management
TKC COMMENT POLICY:
Be percipient, be nice. Don't be a spammer. BE WELL!!!
- The Management
Couldn't the city save millions a year by making all the city workers work hundreds more hrs a year for free?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great idea to me.
Put the city council on 24 hr shifts too. Im sure they would have no issue with that idea.
Ed Ford is a hot mess. First he is criticizing this whole takeover, then when the fire department and union finds a way to save money he wants to stop that. WTF?
ReplyDeleteYeah the union found a way all right. By lying to the workers. Telling them they wouldn't have to work extra hrs (for free)to pay for this merger. Only to later reveal it was all part of the plan. Shocker!!!
ReplyDeleteto those who are so upset they are not going to get to work a 24 hour shift, get over it. at least you have a job with good pay and good benefits. If you don't like working 8 hours a day 5 days a week, quit. Get another job.
ReplyDeleteThank you 3:50. I am so sick of the crying and whining from the ems side and the suppression side. Sick of it. If you are an ems worker who can't adapt, quit. If you are a suppression side worker who hates it, quit.
ReplyDeleteI was never a supporter of this takeover. But my mind has changed over the last year. I have made good friends in the stations, and had a chance to see it from someone elses shoes.
I love my job. I love what I do. And it embarrasses me when people who hate the city, hate the company and hate the people they work for sit around and try to find ways to ruin it for those of us with an open mind and a can do attitude.
Why in the world would the fire department want to take over the ambulance service in the first place? It seems to be nothing more than a huge pain the butt.
ReplyDeleteWho in the world thought it would be a good idea to have people on 24 hour shifts driving around town in ambulances going very fast down our streets?
ReplyDelete@431 - How is that any different than any fire department in the world? All the sudden its all about the ambulance?
ReplyDeletefire trucks hit trees, cars, and children even in the daytime, killing people
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ReplyDeleteThese other Fire depts you refer to hired employees and put them thru Fire Academies and EMS training. There employees rotate thru job duties (ambulance, pumper, truck) The ambulance workers in Kansas City didnt go thru the Fire Academy. Therefore cannot rotate thru job duties, thus allowing them the exemption to work more hrs for the same pay.
What you idiots don't realize is that paramedics who do not have actual fire suppression responsibilities, no matter what stupid "class" they put us through, must be paid based on a 40hour work week, its the Federal law.
ReplyDeleteEmployees in fire protection activities is defined in the FLSA (§203[y]) as follows:
'Employee in fire protection activities' means an employee, including a firefighter, paramedic, emergency medical technician, rescue worker, ambulance personnel, or hazardous materials worker, who is
trained in fire suppression,
has the legal authority and responsibility to engage in fire suppression,
and is employed by a fire department of a municipality, county, fire district, or State,
and is engaged in the prevention, control, and extinguishment of fires or response to emergency medical situations where life, property, or the environment is at risk.
Thus, to qualify for 7(k) pay as a fire protection employee, an EMS employee must (a) work for a (government) fire department, (b) be trained in fire suppression, (c) have the legal authority to fight fires, (d) have the responsibility to fight fires, (e) and actually engage in fire suppression work.
What a hot mess, thanks to an inexperienced City Manager who didn't bother to check the labor laws first. Oh, and did sign a pension side letter too that possibly binds the City to a 30 million dollar pension.
ReplyDelete5:48, is that the letter you sent to Ed Ford?
ReplyDeleteWhy the hell is it so important who did what? Who talked to Ed Ford, who talked to troy Schulte, who talked to god? Who cares? What difference does it make? do you want to know so you can blackball them like you tried to do me? You want to make their lives miserable or bring union charges against them all because YOU the union did not do your just duty to us and allowed us to be put in positions where we were violating federal laws? And now you want to punish us by allowing the city to just do what they want with us and YOU, the union brothers and sisters idly stand by (again) while we get screwed? Every single person who feels betrayed by the union should bring international charges against you for dereliction of duties. I am sure Charley Cashen, Andy Zimmerli, Dave Clark and others will have plenty of negative things to say about me.Anthony Inzenga has openly accused me on FB of being the one to 'betray' the union. My dad is dying and as a union executive you would think he would have the sensitivity to at least show concern for that. Instead he makes defamatory claims against me. People, get over it. as you 24 hour people so generously tell those who do not want to work 24, if you don't like a 40 hour work week, quit. Find another job. OR go through the academy and become a FF, find another system to work in where you can work 40 hours. You should just feel damn lucky you have a good paying job and shut you whining mouths. Sure, we can all have opinions but they do not have to be expressed with venom and hatred I am reading on FB and on the previous post from TKC.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to pass the E-Tax so the city can throw away more of our money.
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