Chapter 9 Me Flashcards
Some situations exceed the capabilities of any organization and require assistance from other agencies or jurisdictions. The first level of assistance is?
Mutual aid
Who has primary responsibility for notifying people about evacuation/ what to do
Police department
The paramilitary structure of the fire department was established in the ____, when cities were replacing independent volunteer companies with municipal fire departments
1860s
Fire fighting activities performed are only ____ % of workload
4%
EMS calls are the most frequent activity in the fire service, accounting for _____ % of responses
64%
Activated fire protection system alarms are the _____ most common reason for fire service response
Second
Investigating an odor, a hazardous condition, or other service call is the _____ most common response in the fire service.
Third
50 years ago, the fire service was virtually all made up of white males. This composition began to change in the?
1960s
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
Collective bargaining
What is the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932
- 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*
Wagner-Connery Act of 1935
Started when one of LaGuardia act initiative was overturned
Establish procedures that were like collective bargaining agreement
Resulted in some unions becoming extremely powerful
Taft-Hartley Labor Act 1947
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
Landrum-Griggin Act of 1959
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
Federal legislation passed in 1912 prohibits federal employees from
Striking
2 notable strikes involving federal government employees marked the beginning and end of a significant era in the evolution of labor management relations
- The postal service workers strike of 1970
- The air traffic controllers strike of 1981
There have been fewer fire fighter strikes in the United States and Canada since
The 1980s
Negative public reaction, political response to change legislation, and lost of trust have caused fire fighter strikes to be viewed as counterproductive
Each state has the authority to govern matters related to the welfare and safety of the residents, this is known as
State police power
State police power includes the right and responsibility of a state to protect its citizens from fire. State activity includes the following
- Adoption of fire and building codes
- Identification of who will enforce code compliance
- Firefighting services
_____ and _____ are the primary causes of non-cardiac death within a burning structure
Flashover and structural collapse
Over the past 40 years the natural disaster occurrence has increased by?
4 times more
The U.S. averaging 13 disasters per year
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?
- Norris-LaGuardia act of 1932
- Wagner-Connery act of 1935
- Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947
- Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959
Strikes by employees are illegal in all but ____ states, and many states prohibit local government employees from striking
10
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
Half
The first fully paid fire department in the United States was established in
1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio
The act of withholding labor for the purpose of effecting a change in wages, hours, or working conditions
A strike
One of the most drastic labor actions
When parties reach a deadlock in negotiations
Impasse
A special interest group that can solicit funding and lobby local and national elected officials on behalf of its cause
Political action committee
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
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
From 1918 to 1921, firefighter strikes focused on?
From 1932 to 1933, firefighter strikes focused on?
From 1973 to 1980, firefighter strikes focused on?
- Better working conditions
- Preserving wages
- Staffing, wages, and contracts
