{"id":502,"date":"2013-08-26T04:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T11:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2018-07-16T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T18:27:07","slug":"pro-vs-volunteer-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2013\/08\/pro-vs-volunteer-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"pro vs. volunteer firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2010, I blogged about how\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to International Association of Fire Fighters is anti-volunteer\" href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2010\/12\/02\/international-association-of-fire-fighters-is\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">the firefighter union in the USA is anti-volunteer<\/a> &#8211; and my feelings about such as a manager of volunteers, a trainer of such managers, an advocate for volunteerism and an advocate AGAINST volunteers being used to replace paid staff.<\/p>\n<p>To stay up-to-date on this issue, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvfc.org\/\">National Volunteer Fire Council<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvfc.org\/right-to-volunteer\/\">Right to Volunteer<\/a> campaign. They post updates about this struggle after the narrative. I&#8217;ll try to do a better job of staying up-to-date as well.<\/p>\n<p>Also see\u00a0this:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvfc.org\/recruitment-and-retention-news\/nvfc-asks-fema-to-examine-whether-anti-volunteer-provision-in-labor-agreement-violates-federal-law\">NVFC Asks FEMA to Examine Whether Anti-volunteer Provision in Labor Agreement Violates Federal Law<\/a>, from March 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Volunteers needed, but are they wanted?\" href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2013\/08\/21\/wanted\/\">Volunteers needed, but are they wanted?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2013\/08\/20\/notwanted\/\">Fire station turns away volunteers \u2013 &amp; how it could be different<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2010, I blogged about how\u00a0the firefighter union in the USA is anti-volunteer &#8211; and my feelings about such as a manager of volunteers, a trainer of such managers, an advocate for volunteerism and an advocate AGAINST volunteers being used to replace paid staff. To stay up-to-date on this issue, check out the\u00a0National Volunteer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[201,625,530,532],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-firefighter","tag-unions","tag-volunteering","tag-volunteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-86","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}