The International Association of Fire Fighters, headquartered in
Washington, DC, represents more than 272,000 full-time professional fire
fighters and paramedics who protect 80 percent of the nation's population.

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The longstanding rights are being replaced with a "one-sided regime under
which the majority of important conditions of employment are not subject to
negotiation," Kelley added.org

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"The IAFF is fully behind Local 4430's efforts to stop the City of
Plantation from threatening, harassing and intimidating its EMS workers for
exercising their legal right to overtime pay and to form a labor union," says
IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger.

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on Wednesday, January 25 to protest the city's campaign of retaliation
and discrimination in violation of their legal and constitutional rights. And just days before Christmas, the city terminated IAFF Local 4430
President Jeffrey Poole and, a few months earlier, Treasurer Thomas Neri for
filing a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lawsuit to make sure the city's
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The HSA requires that the department's personnel system ensure that
employees may bargain collectively.
For a copy of the complaint, please contact NTEU.

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WASHINGTON, The National Treasury Employees Union
(NTEU) today filed a federal lawsuit asking the court to declare unlawful --
and to prevent the implementation of -- final personnel regulations which
strip meaningful collective bargaining and other rights from all of the
civilian employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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IAFF Local 4430 to Hold Rally at City Hall

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"The employees losing their basic rights are the same men and women who
guard our borders every single day," said NTEU President Colleen M . Kelley.

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And, for the city to infringe on their constitutional rights puts
in question the city leaders' commitment to the safety of the citizens of
Plantation.
"There is absolutely no basis for stripping them of their rights while asking
them to help keep America and our way of life intact .
NTEU is the largest independent federal union, representing 150,000
employees in 30 agencies and departments, including more than 15,000 legacy
Customs employees who are now part of the DHS Bureau of Customs and Border
Protection (CBP).

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Dominick Barbera, who represents Florida fire fighters and paramedics as
IAFF 12th District Vice President, says, "These are dedicated union EMS
workers who have responded to thousands of calls for the city and its
citizens.

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The regulations also strip from employees meaningful rights to third-party
decision-making on key matters affecting their work lives and place that
responsibility, instead, in a DHS-controlled internal labor relations board.

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, Following repeated retaliation
and intimidation by the City of Plantation against its union EMS workers for
demanding overtime pay for hours worked, members of the International
Association of Fire Fighters Local 4430 will hold a rally at City Hall at 5:00
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NTEU Other Homeland Security Unions File Federal Lawsuit to Stop DHS From Implementing Unlawful Personnel Regulations

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Plantation City Hall
400 NW 73rd Avenue

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More than 3,000 affiliates protect nearly 6,000 communities in Canada and in
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For more information, visit the NTEU DHS web site at http: //dhs.

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the opposite, removing from all DHS employees longstanding statutory rights to
bargain collectively and participate, through their elected union
representatives, in decisions affecting them, the suit alleges.

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The city's threats and intimidation efforts have included threats of
privatization of the fire department's rescue service, denial of leave and
employment privileges to members of the union , disciplinary actions against
union members resulting in time off without pay, forced resignations and
terminations -- as well as a criminal investigation of executive board
members.

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The IAFF has authorized its legal counsel, Woodley + McGillivary, to
represent Poole and other Local 4430 union members and former employees in a
pending FLSA suit, as well as another court action due to the retaliatory
conduct by the city and its representatives.
NTEU is joined in the suit against DHS and its secretary, Tom Ridge, along
with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and its director, Kay Coles
James, by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the National
Association of Agriculture Employees (NAAE), and the National Federation of
Federal Employees (NFFE).

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More information is available at http://www. District Court for the District of Columbia,
and alleges that the final regulations fly in the face of congressional intent
expressed in the Homeland Security Act (HSA), which established the
department.