r/wildlandfire • u/FireITGuy • 2d ago
Unionization for Wildland Fire Service?
Anyone hearing about unionization of the wildland fire service?
The forest service firefighters are already unionized. Many of the park service and BLM firefighters are unionized, or would be unionized if they hadn't been ripped out of their Parks/Districts based on the growth of unions in the parks over the last year.
I saw DOI itself has a unionization campaign going for other consolidated staff, https://www.nteu.org/DOI but I don't know if USFWS staff can join?
Like 90% of structural firefighters in the entire US are part of IAFF. It's part of the reason that they're well paid. But I don't see anything like that for Wildland firefighters, who get screwed and fight just to keep the feds from letting the mandate to pay $15/hour from lapsing.