'Two Years After Collective Bargaining Is Achieved in the State of Texas, We Can't Find an Example of One That Hasn't Run Off All the Volunteers'
For decades, top bosses of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF/AFL-CIO) have opportunistically wielded their monopoly-bargaining privileges to wipe out what they darkly view as “competition” from volunteer fire departments. The IAFF constitution explicitly empowers union officials to impose fines…