Our Basket of Issues

“This union’s job is to represent you at the federal, state, provincial and local levels of government on issues dealing with your work and quality of life – your employee rights, the right to be represented by your union and work under a collective bargaining agreement, your safety on the job, your financial and retirement security, and making sure employers pay their fair share in taxes so the tax burden isn’t focused squarely on the shoulders of working families…”

The IAFF is here to “represent and fight for you on how much you make, the benefits that protect your family’s health, whether you have a secure retirement after a career of risking your life for your community, how many hours you work and spend away from your family, your safety so you make it home to your family after your shift, and making sure your families are taken care of financially if one of our own makes the ultimate sacrifice”

– Harold A. Schaitberger, IAFF General President

Our trademark “gold and black”, we will support candidates who:

• Support and voted for national collective bargaining rights for all professional fire fighters

• Oppose forcing fire fighters to be covered under Social Security

• Believe the defined benefit retirement programs that cover our members must be protected

• Favor a system of health care that is provided through employer-sponsored programs and have a plan to reduce the costs to our members and their employers

• Support appointing judges who will keep fire fighter overtime laws in place and not overturn the Family Medical Leave Act (FLSA), collective bargaining, OSHA coverage for public workers, ADA and other employment laws that would mean elimination of fire fighter overtime pay and many other workplace rights

• Support authorization and full funding of the FIRE Act and SAFER grant programs

• Oppose so-called paycheck protection measures that are scams to limit the power of workers in unions

• Voted in favor of legislation to expand worker rights, guarantee overtime pay, raise the minimum wage and promote the ability to organize