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Thecaptain:

MathIsHard has just shown your ignorance of the basic facts of the argument here. I do know the system and the job and the truth and lies about the job. You & Block know nothing that you don't read in a report and have no real understanding of the big picture!

You state, "Here is another incorrect quote - Block and Cote claim that swapping shifts with another firefighter (a common practice) results in an overtime shift paid at 1½ times base hourly wage." This is a direct quote from your article published in the last Beacon, "Central to the problem, Block and Cote claim, is that under the current system firefighters are able to voluntarily pick up an available second consecutive shift, or swap shifts with another firefighter, in order to work a full 24 hours, and that second consecutive shift is compensated at overtime rates of 1.5 times normal pay." Fact: If a FF works a 10 hour shift as a swap and then works his own shift it is not paid at 1 1/2 his base rate, it's paid at straight time.

Let's keep the financial argument (which obviously you know nothing about the real statistics...you have the #'s but you know not what to do with them) about Warwick. I do have to say, however, that Providence's pension woes have everything to do with the City's refusal to make required annual contributions...period!!

Corrente, who?