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Country Fire Service / Re: Trigger for CFS to change to MFS
« on: December 18, 2010, 05:52:50 AM »Cant see it happening ,MFS need us just as much as we need them..having said that may be its time to look at having MFS day crews in CFS station where both services can work as one service rather than two...Works well interstate....
Sorry but Bullshit...
Having worked in the CFA for almost 2 years as a full time firey I can tell you that the integrated system is scheiße.
Would be OK if we were one service but staff and volls had their own stations but never together.
Imagine for a minute the morale of the vollunteer respondingto the station knowing that
1.Hes going to miss the truck 100% guaranteed
2. hes not getting paid to be there and those on the truck are.
3.hes on a striketeam with a couple of paid guys (like we used to be in Vic) who are getting paid double time to sit on a fire and hes losing work at home.
4. Industrial disputes ...where the staff are on strike over something and the volls "cross the picket line" at the station...(at Victoria the staff and volls atone station had a fist fight in early 2000 over this issue)
5. firies at (say Mt Barker) getting paid 20 to 30% more than the dudes at region 1 (as full time firies would be on the award as negotiated by the UFU)
etc etc etc etc
and the list goes on.
The integrated model in Victoria is NOT something we should aspire to.
Better to say CFS will employ full time fireys (at award wages) at Mt Barker with no volunteers at the station at all (including decent trucks/aerials etc)
Cheers
R