Protect Your Income

"P.Y.I." stands for Protect Your Income, the essential benefit for Professional Firefighters. The name says it all. If you go down with an illness or injury that prevents you from working and earning an income, the PYI Plan can save you and your family from some very difficult choices.

ONLY full-time, professional firefighters who are Members in good standing of both the IAFF and the California Professional Firefighters are eligible to participate in PYI.

The cost is just $15.00 per month (plus any administration fee your Local may impose) .

Benefits Include:

* Up to 66 2/3% of income paid during period of disability.

* No sick leave "Burn" required.

* Additional benefits paid for HIV infection, accidental Death, felonious assault, and more.

Click HERE to view frequently asked questions about the PYI Plan.

Click HERE for a PYI application.

On Saturday, June 7th, 2008, Local F-33 will pay the registrations fee for 2 - 10 person teams.

The Act authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, for military construction, and for national security-related energy programs.

 H.R.4986 includes the provision (Below): Section 1080 (mutual aid), 1113 (uniform).

SEC.1080. RETENTION OF REIMBURSTMENT FOR PROVIOSION OF RECIPOROCAL FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES.

Section 5 of the Act of May 27, 1955 (chapter 105; 69 Stat. 67; 42 U.S.C. 1856d) is amended

(1)     by striking “Funds” and inserting “(a) Funds”; and

(2)     by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a),all sums received for any Department of Defense activity for fire protection rendered pursuant to this Act shall be credited to the appropriation fund or account from which the expenses were paid.  Amount so credited shall be merged with the funds in such appropriation fund or account and shall be available for the funds with which the funds are merged.”

SEC.113. UNIFORM ALLOWANCE FOR CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.

Section 1593(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking “$400.00 per year. “And inserting” “$400.00 (or such higher maximum amount at the Secretary of Defense may be regulation prescribed).”

Section 1113 removes the previous maximum rate of $400.00 and should effectuate a change within DoD to provide uniform allowance parity with the non-DoD federal firefighter rate of $800.00 per year as prescribed by current law and OPM.

Fellow Union Members,

There was an error on the last ballot.  The survey for the new schedule was worded improperly.  The measure was written 24 on 72 off.  It should have said 48 on 72 off.  Also to clear up any confusion, Chief Nichols expressed to the Executive Board that all stations will participate in the new schedule as a test.  Not just a few stations.  The online survey vote is for all stations to participate.  This vote is only for the one year test period.  On July 12th through July 18th all Union Members will have an opportunity to participate in an online survey vote.

"All stations in the San Diego metro area will participate in a test period for the proposed new work schedule, 48 on 72 off".

If this measure passes the Executive Board will review a power point packet.  When the Board approves the power point, it will be forwarded to Chief Nichols for approval for a test period in January.  Unit Employees will schedule their leave in September 2007 to coincide with the proposed schedule.  Union members need to register on the Union Website in order to log on to the online voting page.

Heres is a sample of how the schedule would work based on a Saturday RDO.

Sun  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat  Sun  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat
 W    W   Off  Off   W    W   Off  Off  Off   W    W   Off  Off  Off

Members, From IAFF 16th District:

IAFF attorneys have received a favorable decision in the matter involving our federal fire fighters at San Clemente Island California .  The fire fighters work a 168 vs 144 hour schedule and the employees through their IAFF site rep (F33) attempted to address pay calculation issues with the employer several years ago.

Based on the ruling (attached) the employees will be receiving back pay and other benefits as appropriate. 
David Ricksecker , from the law firm Woodley and McGillivary did a great job on this case.

This is another great example of how the IAFF guardian and FLSA grant policies can work for our members. 

Jim Johnson

International Association of Fire Fighters

Attention All Email Users,

As of Dec. 15th 2006 Unions-America will begin requiring SMTP authentication for sending email using the Unions-America email system. This will apply to anyone using email programs like Outlook Express to send email using our system. This will not apply to users who only use the webmail system to send email.
If you use an email program to send email for a unions-america.com or profirefighter.com address, or to send email for any hosted domain email address through our system, you will need to make the following changes in your email program to use SMTP authentication.
After Dec. 15th 2006, you will not be able to send email using the Unions-America system without using SMTP Authentication. Follow the instructions below to setup SMTP Authentication in your email program as soon as possible. If your email program is not listed below, refer to your programs help files for instructions on setting up SMTP Authentication.

Outlook and Outlook Express versions 2000 and earlier:

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1. Open your Outlook program, then select the Tools > Accounts option from the menus.
2. Select the Mail Tab on the Accounts window, select your email account, then click the Properties button.
3. Select the Servers tab on the next window. Place a check mark in the box under "Outgoing Mail Server", labeled "My server requires authentication", then click the OK button and close the accounts window.

Outlook and Outlook Express versions 2002 and later:

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1. Open your Outlook program, then select the Tools > E-Mail Accounts option from the top menus.
2. Select the View/Change Existing Email Accounts option, then select the account you want to edit, and click the Change button.
3. On the next screen, select the "More Settings" button.
4. On the new window, select the Outgoing Server tab, and then place a check in the "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" selection box. Also, Select the "Use same settings as my incoming mail server" option, then click OK.
5. Click the Finish button.

Mac OS X Mail:

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1. Open OS X Mail, From the Mail menu, select Preferences.
2. Select your account from the Accounts window, then click Edit.
3. From the Account Information tab, click the Option button for the Outgoing Mail Server.
4. From the Authentication: pulldown menu, select Password. Complete the Username: and Password: fields with your email username and password.
5. Click OK, Save the changes and close the window.

Thunderbird (or Mozilla Suite):

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1. Go to "Tools -> Account Settings -> Outgoing Server (SMTP)". (If using Mozilla Suite: go to "Edit -> Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings -> Outgoing Server (SMTP)".)
2. Select the server and press the Edit... button.
3. Check the "Use name and password" option. Add your username as your full email address. Click "OK".
4. Thunderbird will ask you for your password the first time you send email and you can optionally save it at that time.

CNRSW Human Resources Office Drug-Free Workplace

http://www.cnrsw.navy.mil/hrocnrsw/drug-fre.htm