Kitchener looks at US-style privatized firefighters

"Too generous" contract setttlement cited.

from The Record

The Record in Kitchener, Ontario reports that city council is looking at cost-saving measures for its fire department, including privatization.  Outrage at the generosity of an arbitrated contract settlement prompted  one veteran councillor to point to the privatized fire services in some American cities, but a spokesman for the Ontario Professional Firefighters' Association noted that US privatization experiments tended to be short ones when lives on are the line.

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