commitment to every taxpayer not any one department increased service and greater value to the taxpayer could be coming from a plan that cuts manpower union leaders looking to reduce a double fire houses from 10-91187% to cross trained paramedics and physical fitness incentive programs and restrict bereavement leave no discussion on contract discussion specifics the union president not speaking publicly past president and former chicago fire chief is mayor rahm emmanuel more difficult than in 1980 during the city s first and only firefighters strike i would rather deal back to that than with this guy or with richard daly never got anything from these guys 36 ward alderman ald. nick sposato not taking the mayor s side everything if you could save one life with the speed cameras or with the tanning beds now all of a sudden did not care about people s lives with fire fighters? livelihood at stake according to union members confessions on top of plan to solve the pe