Keep the ball rolling vote yes

The shït is really starting to hit the fan now.

Let’s hope the fire fighters vote yes too.

Are you reading this Mr. Kenny?!

Come on INMO, join them , let all frontline join against these lowlifes in Leinster house

Brilliant!! Great to see our frontline workers taking the fight to the Government! Firefighters, Gardai, Nurses & Army…These men & women are Everyday Heroes!! This is not some Soviet Era Eastern Block Nation we live in! We deserve better & OUR Frontline Staff are determined to fight for the cause! Back them 100%!!!

All frontline need to stand together now. No more cheap talk

If the government keeps going like this, they’ll have a full-on mutiny by the civil service by the end of the year. Between industrial action by the Gardaí and the fire service alone you’re talking about a massive drop in support as key services are lost due to government policy.

For all the civil service bashing that’s gone on the last few years, it’s a telling situation where it will likely be the civil service who had the stones to stand up and say no more.

Nurses, Gardai and now the fire fighters all lining up? Gonna be a long hot summer if it keeps going like this.

Lets just remember the biggest section of the fire service is the Retained ,men & women who don’t have a set 12 hour or 8 hour shift pattern. The calls we answer are the same calls as the full time service we give the same professional care to our citizens the length and breath of this country. We are on call 24/7/365 we only get paid if we are called out ,our retainer is approximately ?1 per hour we pay USC PRSI & the Pension Levy in a non pensionable job and the government want to reduce our wages even more.

Tomorrow the DOELG will announce it new project called Keeping Community’s Safe, and how will they keep you safe by reducing the number of firefighters and closing down stations.

I hope the public can see that we don’t want to cause any inconvenience to you but we are left with no option if this is driven through many communities outside the large city’s wont have firefighters to respond to 999 calls.

The people of Ireland have been put down and rolled over for far too long. I dare say hundreds of years. We all thought things were changing with the coming of the tiger. Unfortunately it was a cruel joke that a lot of us are discovering in the last few years. How can a financial system work if those who speculate are rewarded on good bets and their bad bets are socialised. Any person with a brain can see the injustice which lies at the core of these policies. Citizens of Eire it’s time to take a stand and support the catalyst for change in the shape of frontline workers. If we don’t we will be rolled over for many more generations. The scale of debts which we have been forced to shoulder are unsustainable without more and more cuts and taxes. Don’t believe the mainstream media and government propoganda.
Remember: vote yes for change, growth and jobs. Another sick joke. Wake up people! This is a race to the bottom if YOU allow it.

We have to vote yes what they want to do to the fire service is dangerous ,we have to many chiefs making cost saving measures to mind there jobs ,they don t care about the public or the firefighters it madness

It appears at long last the front line workers have taken enough it is long past time for a unified action from this group of essential workers to say no more great stuff

Gardai cannot strike, Fire Service and HSE Ambulance Personnel must provide emergency cover so in effect cannot strike in the full meaning of the word. The Government live in the false belief that as Emergency Service Personnel there is nothing we can do to fight back no matter how our respective services are stripped to the bone. They believe that the petty differences and arguments between the different sections of the Emergency Services will forever stop us acting as one. It is time to put these differences and arguments behind us and for us to join together to make a stand.

The plan is simple, but it requires a trust between all section of the Emergency Services that has never existed before, a trust that we have each others backs. We need to be one in this. Not Gardai, not Fire Service, not HSE Ambulance Personnel, not Coast Guard not Army or any other single group. We need to be The Emergency Services of Ireland together as one cohesive unit.

They have taken away our right to strike but they cannot take away our right to resign. Twenty thousand plus Emergency Service Personnel all resigning on the same day. They cannot replace us, it would take too long to train new people. Twenty thousand plus Emergency Service Personnel all in one place, at one time, all with one idea, the wellbeing of the Irish people. We spend our lives protecting the people of Ireland from danger, be it arresting the criminals that prey on them, entering burning buildings to save them, saving their lives with medical intervention, plucking them from certain death on the high seas, keeping the criminals behind bars, and every other thing we risk all to do. This is a fight that the people of Ireland cannot take on , it is up to us, the frontline members of the Emergency Services to yet again risk all to protect them. Not by arresting someone, not by fighting the flame, but by simply saying, “no more, that is enough” and showing the Government that their actions do indeed have consequences.

Think of this Mr Kenny. Your and your colleagues are in the Dáil and you get a message that something is happening outside. The doors open and some people begin the enter the chamber. They politely walk up to you, introduce themselves and hand you a letter of resignation, you look behind them and see an orderly queue. There is no shouting, no abuse being hurled at you just a queue of quiet people exercising their right to resign. You may wonder how these people managed to enter the Dáil but what you will eventually realise is that the members of An Garda Siochána who were on duty on the gate are in fact in the queue, and it is a long queue, a very long queue. A queue of twenty thousand plus people who can no longer just stand idly by while you and your colleagues slowly take apart the Emergency Services. The faces of these people will not register with you as, with all the citizens of Ireland all you will see is the uniforms. Uniforms which we used to wear with pride but no longer do.

What you forget is that under those uniforms there are people, people with them same hopes and dreams as everyone else. We may be Gardai, Fire Fighters, Paramedics, EMTs, Coast Guards personnel, Soldiers, Prison Wardens and the countless others who serve on the front line but underneath we are just people, people who worry about the same things everyone else does. Is my family safe, can I pay my mortgage, can I feed my children.

We have been pushed to the brink and the only course of action left to us is resignation, when members of the Emergency Services cannot afford to put enough fuel into their cars to actually get to work, or go to work when our minds are wondering if the letter from the bank foreclosing on their home will be on their mat when we get home then enough is enough. It is a sad sad day when a Government slashes its Emergency services so much that the People of Ireland live in fear because their Gardai are no longer there, are afraid to call the Fire Service because they cannot afford the bill and can fall sick when there is no Ambulance to come to their aid. The only thing that could be worse is if we, the Emergency Services personnel were not there at all, and Mr Kenny that time is very close indeed.

We do not want this Mr Kenny but you are leaving us with little choice. You are taking away our ability to do our jobs and putting the lives of the Irish public at risk with the slash and burn tactics you are using against the Emergency Services as a whole.

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Power to the people. Time to bring the fascist dictator EU puppets to their knees. I fully support any action these frontline citizens decide to take. If we continue to tip our cap to the ECB technocrats there will be no recovery for decades.

It nickname is keeping the chiefs safe

Fulltime Firefighters can and will strike

Whatever about the “Keeping Chiefs Safe” system that endangers firefighters lives and in turn puts the public in more danger the fact remains that Full time firefighters are ready for strike if our Pay or Allowances are Attacked again .

Do the public know we have over 300 chiefs and assistant chiefs in the republic of Ireland who are engineers and have never been operational firefighters and more importantly have never fought fires in a REAL emergency , Only on training courses where they are minded like kids do they see flames and smoke and these office jockeys are setting policies that effect the safety of Firefighters and the general public.

Some years ago the irish daily mail printed an article highlighting the scandalous ammount of chiefs and assistan chief fire officers that we have per head of population compared to any other country, I would urge people to check it out

Light a Spark Under Their Arse Make Them Sit Up And Listen .

John my comments are ment for the general public who don’t know what we do.

Some years ago a ACFO commented that the Retained Fire Service was a necessary evil .

The biggest threat to this action will be the different unions not standing together, please god they don’t start trying to outdo each other and stand firm together

Cut 20% of the dead wood out of parliament I say !! They are obviously clueless !!