Arbitration Update

The Arbitrator finally ruled on February 24th and HFD won against the City of Houston. He ruled that the 3 wrongfully terminated firefighters should be fully reinstated with FULL back pay immediately. Here's the news coverage of it:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=7981654

And the interview the Three Firefighters did:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=7986572

Well, not surprisingly enough, the City of Houston appealed the Arbitrator's decision. So, the city is suing the 3 Firefighters. Bottom line, the city didn't want to pay them back pay. So since the three were still in a lawsuit and couldn't speak out about it, us wives and supporters contacted the media and did a few interviews ourselves.

http://www.click2houston.com/video/27314737/index.html

The whole ordeal was and is such a nightmare. It's still hard for me to watch those videos. The nightmare is NOT over.

The City and HFD Union has been working on an agreement for a while now. The city wants to layoff nearly 140 Firefighters if HFD doesn't give the City control of HFD Pension Funds. So our case has taken a back burner for a while but have recently brought it back up to the front to get it all over with so we can move on with our lives.