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Sisters and Brothers,
This week, your Local 1014 Executive Board continued the fight for workers' compensation reform at the highest level. We have heard your cries for help and live in the same harsh reality of a broken workers' compensation program.
This dysfunctional system contributes to a record number of individuals off on injury suffering through pain, emotional distress and causing financial hardship. Our fight for our members' health and well-being will not stop. All of us deserve to be treated like professional athletes. To receive proper care without getting lost in the workers' compensation system. Firefighters, healthy, happy and properly healed, are the single most important resource to the public and we need to be treated as such.
Local 1014 is fighting for our members and moving towards a brighter future and a workers compensation system that values our members and their families and gets them the help they need. Thank you to President Dave Gillotte, and Directors Chris Reade, Jason Cervantes for giving heartfelt testimony to help drive a Board of Supervisors motion for a change.
We would also like to thank Supervisors Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger for showing us continued support and making the motion to support all the hard-working men and women of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
We would like to encourage all of you to please take the time to listen to our video below and read the Board of Supervisors' motion related to workers' compensation.
The fight is far from over but through our solidarity and strong union work, we will see change.
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GET YOUR LIMITED-EDITION CENTENNIAL BADGE AND YEARBOOK
BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
As the Los Angeles County Fire Department prepares to commemorate its 100th anniversary as proud protectors of life, property, and the environment, a limited number of CENTENNIAL BADGES and YEARBOOKS remain available for purchase.
Both the centennial badges and yearbooks highlight our Department’s legacy in the fire service and pay tribute to our current and past fire service brothers and sisters who have proudly served with honor and bravery.
The LACoFD centennial badges remain available for purchase through Thursday, November 10, 2022. Please refer to EA-457, dated October 19, 2022, to submit your order today. Centennial badges will be available for pick-up in December so they may be worn throughout the calendar year 2023!
The LACoFD’s centennial yearbook is being published in partnership with the Los Angeles County Fire Department Foundation (Foundation). Yearbooks remain available for pre-order on the Foundation’s centennial yearbook webpage.
If you have any questions, please contact Battalion Chief Jason Ghorbani, Del Valle Regional Training Center, at (661) 257-4740.
CALL TO ACTION! ALL MEMBERS!!! RALLY AT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS!!!!
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On Tuesday, November 15th, we ask that all off-duty members attend a rally for a fair contract at the Board of Supervisors. We need our members to show them that we are united!
Make your voice heard! Bring your families! If your family cannot attend, please bring a 8x11 photo of your family.
We need our members to again show the County that we are united and that we will not accept less than what we deserve. The Board of Supervisors (BOS) needs to hear from our members about the disappointment we are all feeling in our Department's lack of leadership. From the COVID mandate to the broken worker’s comp system, to the training cadre fiasco, our members have been put through enough. It’s time for the County to step up and show up for our members.
We will be joined by our Coalition of County Unions partner unions. We do not stand alone, we have 80,000 County workers united behind us to fight for a fair contract for our members.
Please wear your Local 1014 shirt, or a non-Department fire shirt, if you have one. If you do not have a shirt, one will be provided for you at the rally. Coffee and snacks will be provided.
Parking is available at the following locations:
It's time for us to take the fight for a fair contract for our members to the Board of Supervisors! Solidarity! Local 1014 Strong! |
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In Solidarity We Work to the Rule,
President Dave Gillotte and the Local 1014 Executive Board |
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