San Diego has the same issue with its firefighters and police. They are by far the highest paid employees for the city of San Diego http://www.10newsblogs.com/pdf/earnings.pdf, and they are crying for raises every year with the politicians rarely saying no.
Sanders is willing to cut back on non public safety pensions and say no to non public safety raises. There must not be any money for a 4% raise for street workers, after the firefighters got 20% raises over a 4 year period. They got a 13% raise 3 ago and just got a 6% raise. Only the police have gotten a raise since the 13% raise, and the firefighters were all over the news saying they deserve a raise too.
I guess it is more important to have guys to clean fire trucks, than roads to drive them on, or working water lines to hook their hoses to.
This city has a crumbling infrastructure that needs to be addressed, but the police and fire unions take all the money first. All that money and they cannot fight wildfires, because their approach is all wrong. Firefighters will never be able to stop a wind driven wildfire. It is all about proper fire codes, and proper enforcement of fire codes.
