California Professional Firefighters

 Governor Brown has released details of his plan to roll back the retirement security of current and future employees. The plan proposes to bypass collective bargaining by imposing a range of pension rollbacks and locking them into the state constitution. CPF and dozens of other organizations denounced the move as an assault on current and future workers.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the seat of much of the nation’s nuclear research, this week announced it is renewing its five-year contract with Alameda County Fire Department to provide fire and EMS services for the facility. In so doing, the facility rejected an effort by Wackenhut Services International to privatize the facility’s critical safety services.

Talented and experienced firefighters laid off because of budget cuts continue their careers, thanks to the Displaced Firefighter List, created by CPF-sponsored legislation and managed by the CFFJAC.

California Professional Firefighters will hold a Special Convention in January to address the urgent threat posed by the proposed anti-labor Paycheck Deception Intiative.

Alameda Co. Fire and Alameda Co. Firefighters Local 55 are honored at CFFJAC Conference for labor-management cooperation in training and firefighter safety.

Long Beach Firefighters Local 372 is saddened to announce the death of one of their own in the line of duty. LBFD Engineer Darren Rockett succumbed to job-related illness a few days short of his 48th birthday. Memorial services are scheduled for November 18th.</p>

 This week, Gov. Brown introduced a pension "reform" proposal that, if enacted, would threaten basic retirement security for generations of firefighters, their families, and millions of other hard-working public servants.

 Two California firefighters are honored for bravery above and beyond the call of duty in a ceremony at the State Capitol.

As a legislative committee convened to consider pension issues, Long Beach Firefighter Rich Brandt joined teachers, school employees and retirees in bringing a simple message to lawmakers and the public -- protect secure retirement and stop scapegoating public employees.