Chapter 9 Me

Question 1

Some situations exceed the capabilities of any organization and require assistance from other agencies or jurisdictions. The first level of assistance is?

Answer 1

Mutual aid

Question 2

Who has primary responsibility for notifying people about evacuation/ what to do

Answer 2

Police department

Question 3

The paramilitary structure of the fire department was established in the ____, when cities were replacing independent volunteer companies with municipal fire departments

Answer 3

1860s

Question 4

Fire fighting activities performed are only ____ % of workload

Answer 4

4%

Question 5

EMS calls are the most frequent activity in the fire service, accounting for _____ % of responses

Answer 5

64%

Question 6

Activated fire protection system alarms are the _____ most common reason for fire service response

Answer 6

Second

Question 7

Investigating an odor, a hazardous condition, or other service call is the _____ most common response in the fire service.

Answer 7

Third

Question 8

50 years ago, the fire service was virtually all made up of white males. This composition began to change in the?

Answer 8

1960s

Question 9

The process in which individuals (through their unions) negotiate with their employers in order to determine terms of employment

Salary, benefits, leave, hours, job health and safety policies

Answer 9

Collective bargaining

Question 10

What is the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932

Answer 10

1. Employee cannot be forced into a contract by an employer as part of obtaining and keeping a job.

yellow dog contracts prohibit workers from joining unions*

Question 11

Wagner-Connery Act of 1935

Answer 11

Started when one of LaGuardia act initiative was overturned

Establish procedures that were like collective bargaining agreement

Resulted in some unions becoming extremely powerful

Question 12

Taft-Hartley Labor Act 1947

Answer 12

Designed to modify the Wagner-Connery Act and swing the pendulum back toward the middle by reducing power of unions

Unions were required to engage in good faith bargaining

A 60 day cool off period was created which comes in effect when a labor agreement ends without a new contract

Question 13

Landrum-Griggin Act of 1959

Answer 13

Also known as the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act

Required the unions to file annual report with government listing organizational and member assets

To prevent crime and corruption

Question 14

Federal legislation passed in 1912 prohibits federal employees from

Answer 14

Striking

Question 15

2 notable strikes involving federal government employees marked the beginning and end of a significant era in the evolution of labor management relations

Answer 15

1. The postal service workers strike of 1970
2. The air traffic controllers strike of 1981

Question 16

There have been fewer fire fighter strikes in the United States and Canada since

Answer 16

The 1980s

Negative public reaction, political response to change legislation, and lost of trust have caused fire fighter strikes to be viewed as counterproductive

Question 17

Each state has the authority to govern matters related to the welfare and safety of the residents, this is known as

Answer 17

State police power

Question 18

State police power includes the right and responsibility of a state to protect its citizens from fire. State activity includes the following

Answer 18

1. Adoption of fire and building codes
2. Identification of who will enforce code compliance
3. Firefighting services

Question 19

_____ and _____ are the primary causes of non-cardiac death within a burning structure

Answer 19

Flashover and structural collapse

Question 20

Over the past 40 years the natural disaster occurrence has increased by?

Answer 20

4 times more

The U.S. averaging 13 disasters per year

Question 21

Four major pieces of federal legislation have established the groundwork for the rules and regulations of the present collective bargaining system. The four federal laws that regulate the collective bargaining systems are?

Answer 21

1. Norris-LaGuardia act of 1932
2. Wagner-Connery act of 1935
3. Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947
4. Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959

Question 22

Strikes by employees are illegal in all but ____ states, and many states prohibit local government employees from striking

Answer 22

10

Question 23

Firefighters have the right to bargain collectively in ___ of the states. Those states authorize municipalities to recognize a local fire fighter labor organization as the bargaining unit and enter into binding contract

Answer 23

Half

Question 24

The first fully paid fire department in the United States was established in

Answer 24

1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Question 25

The act of withholding labor for the purpose of effecting a change in wages, hours, or working conditions

Answer 25

A strike

One of the most drastic labor actions

Question 26

When parties reach a deadlock in negotiations

Answer 26

Impasse

Question 27

A special interest group that can solicit funding and lobby local and national elected officials on behalf of its cause

Answer 27

Political action committee

Question 28

The creation in 1978 of _______, the IAFF action committee, was a natural progression of the labor organizations activity as a major influence in improving fire fighters work environment

Answer 28

FIREPAC

FIREPAC promoted the legislative and political interest of the IAFF. The money is used to educate members of congress about issues important to fire fighters and EMS personnel and to elect candidates to office who support those issues

Question 29

From 1918 to 1921, firefighter strikes focused on?

From 1932 to 1933, firefighter strikes focused on?

From 1973 to 1980, firefighter strikes focused on?

Answer 29

• Better working conditions
• Preserving wages
• Staffing, wages, and contracts