DOES ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THE AMR STRIKE IN LOS ANGELES?

[checkersfire]

i here there are some mgt personnel going to l.a. to cover the strike from st louis, most "road" people won't go. i personally won't cross a picket line. but i hear their forcing the "salaried" mgt to go anyway. i curious as to how long it may last, or has it even begun yet?

[4kids]

I had to go and look. I couldn't remember wich union they are with. We went through this same crap in the Northeast strike.

Anyway here is a link to the article that is posted on the union website.

http://www.iaep.org/News/042208_LAAV_Set_For_Strike.shtml

[JPINFV]

$5 says that the the strike will hurt the employees more than any sort of benefits that they win from the strike.

[Dustdevil]

LOL! Like there is a shortage of EMTs in LA County!

I never understood the concept of paying an organisation to lose your job for you.

[CBEMT]

The AMR union in Mass. didn't even actually strike, and they got everything they wanted and then some.

[JPINFV]

To be honest, with the number of ambulance companies in the area as well as "emergent" (taxi driver for fire medics/general public) and "non-emergent" (taxi driver for health care facilities), I'm willing to bet that OC and LA are one of the few areas where EMTs are actually in serious demand.

[Dustdevil]

Yeah, probably so. But it is also one of the few places where the infrastructure is in place to produce a thousand replacements in three weeks.

[Scaramedic]

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[JPINFV]

Yeah, probably so. But it is also one of the few places where the infrastructure is in place to produce a thousand replacements in three weeks.

but but but MY basic school took 4 months! :roll: (it was still only 120 hours)

/lowest form of wit.

[checkersfire]

Yeah, probably so. But it is also one of the few places where the infrastructure is in place to produce a thousand replacements in three weeks.

true, but those newbies will still have to pass a practical and written exam. are they national registry out there? i know around here, they use adjuncts that are emts/medics for the practical exam. they might not be so easy on the newbies to replace them.