New Orleans Firefighters Protest Lack of Pay Raise
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Firefighters angered by the city’s failure to come up with a 5% pay raise staged an unauthorized sickout Monday in anticipation of a strike scheduled to begin in five days. City officials said the sickout, in which 117 people missed work, would not affect the department’s firefighting ability
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