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The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) is a labor union representing paid full-time firefighters and emergency medical services personnel in the United States and Canada. The IAFF was formed in 1918 and is affiliated with the AFL–CIO in the United States and the Canadian Labour Congress in Canada.
Harold Allen Schaitberger (born June 24, 1946) is an American labor leader who served as General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters from 2000 to 2021. Harold A. Schaitberger served as the ninth president in the IAFF's 100-year history, and was the first to have been elected by acclamation in 2000.
International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) 1918 331,003 Professional firefighters and emergency medical service workers. 2021: IAFF: UNITE HERE: 2004 301,886 [4] Hotel, casino, restaurant, and commercial food service workers and garment manufacturing employees. Formerly UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) and ...
The International Association of Firefighters was the first union to back Joe Biden in 2020 but so far has remained on the 2024 sidelines. Biden prides himself on being pro-labor.
The union represents more than 349,000 full-time professional firefighters and emergency medical workers in the United States and Canada, according to the organization. Traditionally, Vance’s ...
In 2019, Trump, then president, blasted the union's leadership, writing in a tweet: "The Dues Sucking firefighters leadership will always support Democrats, even though the membership wants me ...
In 1982, Whitehead was elected as full-time secretary-treasurer of the IAFF, in which role he established a line-item budget, and averted a potential bankruptcy of the union. In 1988, he was instead elected as president of the union, defeating incumbent leader Jack Gannon. [1] [2] He also served as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. In 2000, he ...
Gillam said the union and Bucyrus administration had an executive session labor management meeting Feb. 14. and came up with a tentative plan that was signed by firefighters union officials, while ...