The Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts held a rally in Stoughton dubbing the town ‘‘unpatriotic’’ over a pay dispute involving a firefighter deployed in Iraq with the National Guard. Kurt Simpson, a Sharon firefighter, held his daughter Erica during the rally. Below, helmets from supporters.
(Globe Staff Photo / Jonathan Wiggs)
Stoughton
Firefighters turn up heat in pay flap
The Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts held a rally in Stoughton dubbing the town ‘‘unpatriotic’’ over a pay dispute involving a firefighter deployed in Iraq with the National Guard. Kurt Simpson, a Sharon firefighter, held his daughter Erica during the rally. Below, helmets from supporters.
(Globe Staff Photo / Jonathan Wiggs)
The sea of red T-shirts is long gone, and the television news crews have packed up and moved on. But since Friday, when a firefighters' rally declared Stoughton the most "unpatriotic" town in the country, there has been no settlement in a union dispute over pay for a fire captain deployed to Iraq. (Full article: 731 words)
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