Clark County Fire Department Union Shows How Corrupt They Were

Jon Ralston, despite all of his faults- racist and whore for Harry Reid, has been all over the Clark County Fire Department firefighters union has been screwing the taxpayers of Clark County.
From Ralston and the Las Vegas Sun: If ever there were a compelling argument to televise collective bargaining sessions between governments and public employee unions, Clark County’s extraordinary hearing with its firefighters and an arbitrator makes any “Law & Order” episode look tepid.
County attorney Mark Ricciardi’s shredding of fire union chief Ryan Beaman, exposing a series of convenient memory losses, obvious dissimulations and outright contradictions, would make Jack McCoy proud. Reading through the astonishing transcript, which resulted in that stunning defeat for Local 1908 before Arbitrator Norman Brand, leads to the inescapable conclusion that the fire union misled the public and unfairly maligned county officials.
The stories of horrendous sick leave abuse, which were generally isolated, have made headlines, as the union’s mewling that the county’s poor oversight led to the ability of some firefighters to make more than $200,000 a year. But that is a lesser story compared with what really happened here, as exposed by Ricciardi’s brilliant lawyering that left Beaman forced into admission after admission.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/28/county-lawyer-exposes-fire-unions-spin-arbitration/
Ralston via Clark County government has shown that some, not all, firefighters have been gaming concerning the sick leave policy and boosting the pay of firefighters.
Of course, the fighters union blame management for the sick leave policy, but the union is willing to throw some members under the bus if their members violated the sick leave policy.
Nice job, Jon Ralston for the reporting.