Almost_done,
Sorry, picking on you again.
However I think the issue is should we cover for the Firefighters
- I don't think WE have an option!
Controversial Tim,
Look up whatever pay data you want to try to divert the argument.
On the contrary, I'm trying to put some FACTS into this argument. Why let a little thing like the truth get in the way of a good rumour, eh!
Some people on this thread are taking things very personally. The firefighters are taking perfectly legal industrial action against their employers backed by a majority vote from their union membership (you'll probably find that more firefighters voted for strike action than people voted for this sh** government (34% of the electorate??)). A basic democratic right that we in the military are here to defend. The GOVERNMENT decided to send in the overstretched military to cover.
I'm sure that most, if not all, firefighters cared that the country was going to war skeleton
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