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2017-Spring.Pdf Spring 2017 Fire Fighter Quarterly vol. 100 no.2 16 26 31 Cover Features Departments 15 PSOC Benefit in 16 Providing a Path to Recovery n 5 From the General President Canada Is Major The new IAFF Center of Excellence for Legislative Victory Behavioral Health Treatment and Recovery is n 7 From the General Trudeau announces helping members overcome addiction and Secretary-Treasurer national line-of-duty other co-occurring disorders death benefit for n 9 Letters families of fallen 18 Navigating the Political Landscape n 11 What’s Our Union Doing for Us? public safety officers Legislative conferences in the United States and Canada set stage for future successes n 12 Noteworthy News n 22 Local Scene n 26 Across the IAFF n 35 On the Road n 36 Retirees n 45 Never Forget n 47 Last Alarm Download the IAFF Frontline App Connect with The IAFF app is available for Apple, Android the IAFF and Blackberry devices. Download the latest update today using this QR Code. Visit Fire Fighter Quarterly online at www.iaff.org/mag 3 QUARTERLY Harold A. Schaitberger General President Harold A. Schaitberger , Editor Edward A. Kelly General Secretary-Treasurer Jeff Zack , Supervising Editor Jane Blume , Director of Communications, Managing Editor IAFF EXECUTIVE BOARD 11th District Sandy McGhee Mark Treglio , Staff Writer Kristin Craine , Staff Writer Tim Burn , Staff Writer 1st District 1283 S. Detroit Avenue Kristin Hazlett , Graphic Designer Michelle Yuen , Assistant Graphic Designer James Slevin Tulsa, OK 74120 Mesha Williams , Staff Writer Meghan BouHabib, Editorial Assistant 204 E 23rd Street (918) 855-8228 (Cell) New York, NY 10010 Cindy Pinkney , Administrative Assistant (212) 545-6978 (Office) 12th District Craig Renfro , Advertising Director • (972) 416-9782 • [email protected] Walter J. Dix 2nd District 2650 W State Road 84 Periodical postage paid at Washington, DC and 1750 New York Avenue, N.W. Mark Woolbright Suite 104 additional mailing offices. 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Buss 4 FIRE FIGHTER QUARTERLY SPRING 2017 What’s My Union Doing For Me? As we begin the countdown to our great union’s 100th birthday, it’s important Treatment and Recovery, an addiction that we take a look back and answer the question that’s been asked over the treatment facility specializing in decades, “What’s my union doing for me?” It’s a question I still hear as I travel post-traumatic stress exclusively for our our two great countries. I also know that it’s a question our affiliate leaders get IAFF members. And I’m very pleased to asked on a regular basis. see that we’re bringing our members out To have this conversation, most of our leadership in this job have to get over of the shadows and into the light, the tendency to let your work speak for itself — whether it’s on the fire ground providing treatment and support for or representing your members in your union office capacity. is is one of the PTSD and other behavioral health times when “we are just doing our job” doesn’t adequately answer the question conditions. that our union’s leaders have been answering for 100 years. We also are focused on what’s nothing Harold A. Schaitberger Just consider this excerpt from one of the very early editions of this less than a scourge on our members and magazine: profession. And that scourge is cancer, a major health concern for our members. Chances are, you or one of your brothers or sisters has been “Look around, brother firemen; where did you stand yesterday unorganized? diagnosed with some form of cancer. It is now the leading cause of death for Where do you stand today organized? Has the Board of Estimates, City Council fire fighters, and we need to better understand the correlation between your or whoever handles the little change pitifully doled out to you once or twice a job, the environment you work in and the occupational cancers that our month, as the case may be, ever given you anything on a silver platter? No, and members are experiencing. the hairs on your head will be as few as the dollars in your pay envelope if you Working with our congressional allies in Congress, we’ve introduced wait for that to happen.” legislation to establish a dedicated cancer registry for fighters that will help in the development of better protective equipment, prevention techniques and So how do we answer this question today? Fortunately — thanks to the work exposure protocols while advocating for additional presumptive coverage and of those who fought and stood up for our rights, pay, benefits and safety over workers’ compensation claims by members suffering this disease. the past 100 years, including all of you holding union office today — all you We are also taking other steps to find better ways to diagnose and treat have to do is think about any aspect of our great profession and the answers cancer. Last fall, we began to explore a partnership to make a groundbreaking are there. new approach to diagnosing and treating cancer available to our members. Do you think the lawmakers and elected officials who control your fire Called the GPS Cancer profile, it is a comprehensive test for diagnosing and department budgets, decide to increase or cut staffing levels, say yes or no to providing doctors with treatment options. We’re now working to make this training or equipment and oppose you in contract negotiations go to work advanced technology available as an affordable benefit to all members every day and ask, “What can we do for our wonderful fire fighters and throughout the United States and Canada. We’ll be updating you further as the paramedics today?” e answer is a resounding no.
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