Self Serving AFL-CIO Reports are Circumspect

AFL-CIO IAFF WASHINGTON D.C. UNION HEADQUARTERS ISSUES GIS REPORT (Not a study.)

The union headquarters of the MWC firefighters union issued a report using GIS data to analyze from it's D.C. headquarters which streets in MWC it believes are outside the industry standard transit time goal.

One of the important aspects of a legitimate study, is that it be done by an impartial third party. These reports that have been generated by the IAFF have been used in various jurisdictions across the US to argue for more union members, aka firefighters. Ironically, as you would expect, these kind of reports issued by the AFL-CIO affiliate never say there are too many firefighters. They have an incentive to make everyone believe they live in a city with too few firefighters. It's a perverse incentive to scare people.

While the data in this report may or may not be useful in determining the current and future manpower and structural needs in rescue and fire suppression in our city, it would be useful to have an impartial third party analyze the needs and then compare.

The report issued from the D.C. headquarters is more likely to be a cynical ploy to scare residents, which has been its playbook all along. Perhaps the report makes some valid assertions, perhaps not. But a union that benefits by receiving union dues from ever increasing union members, funded by taxpayers, cannot be trusted to be impartial.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qv7p1tf6n3w3v82/MidwestCityOK_Final_May2016.pdf?dl=0

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