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By Jamie Maxwell
Mr. Maxwell is a Scottish journalist who writes about Scotland, Britain and the independence movement.
GLASGOW For Scots of my generation millennial and younger the belief that Scotland would be better off running its own affairs, free from the strictures of Westminster, is almost axiomatic. From the Iraq war to Brexit, the financial crash to austerity, Britain feels trapped in a spiral of crisis and decline. According to a September analysis of recent polls, more than 70 percent of Scots under the age of 35 think Scotland should abandon the United Kingdom. And the abrasive right-wing premiership of Boris Johnson, increasingly mired in accusations of cronyism and sleaze, has only strengthened that view.
Wormser’s comments come after Tuesday’s city council meeting, where members of the Lynchburg Firefighters Association claimed they're facing issues including low morale and mandatory overtime.
Lynchburg Firefighters Association voices concerns to city council over working conditions
Concerns include overtime, salary compression, recruitment and retention
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – Members of the Lynchburg fire department voiced concerns to the city council Tuesday over working conditions, including overtime, salary compression, recruitment and retention.
Jamie Maxwell, president of the Lynchburg Firefighters Association, said firefighters have worked 7,800 hours of overtime since January more than 4,000 of those were mandatory.
“Your firefighters are tired. We’re tired of working overtime. We care about our citizens, we care about everybody here [at the city council meeting], we want to do the right thing. We need [city council] to do the right thing, we need [interim city manager] Doctor [Reid] Wodicka to do the right thing, we need the fire chief to do the right thing,” said Maxwell during the public comment portion of the meeting.