Lebanon Police $30,000 Signing Bonus Raises Eyebrows
November 28, 2023
LEBANON — In a sign of the challenge police departments face in filling their ranks, the city’s police department has increased its signing bonus to
BOISE, ID — Boise’s Firefighters Local 149 has been one of the most vocal groups supporting Mike Masterson’s campaign for mayor, with union members knocking on doors trying to unseat Mayor Lauren McLean and their union hall serving as Masterson’s campaign headquarters.
But, why are the city’s firefighters unhappy with the current administration?
According to interviews and documents obtained by BoiseDev, tensions between the Boise Fire Union and McLean go back to long-simmering frustrations in the fire department over whether the city should use random drug testing to root out first responders using drugs, even in their off hours, and the city’s commitment to adding a fourth staff member to fire trucks headed out to the scene of emergencies. The conflict over these two items took center stage in the latest round of fire union contract negotiations that started last year and eventually had to go to mediation and stretch back further than that into the administration of former mayor, and staunch Boise Fire Union political ally, Dave Bieter.
LEBANON — In a sign of the challenge police departments face in filling their ranks, the city’s police department has increased its signing bonus to
Ron Cato spent 30 years of his life marching into burning buildings, rescuing people from smoldering rubble and speeding down streets in a fire engine,
The Columbia River Fire & Rescue District and the local firefighters union signed a 2022-2025 contract but never had “a meeting of the minds” on substantial salary