NYC Medics Bid to Revive Free Speech on Lockers
City medics are threatening to join the firefighters union in a planned lawsuit against the FDNY over stickers on lockers.
City medics are threatening to join the firefighters union in a planned lawsuit against the FDNY over stickers on lockers.
Department brass have ordered all decorations to be removed from firehouse lockers - a policy that includes emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
According to EMS union officials, several weeks before the Uniformed Firefighters Association called a press event to denounce the policy, medics' lockers were ordered cleaned - and in some cases scraped of all material.
Union spokesman Robert Ungar said units were inspected by the FDNY Bureau of Investigations.
"We'll go wherever we need to, to gain back the right to put the flag of our country on our lockers," said union president Patrick Bahnken.
The FDNY ban came after a complaint over porno pictures and curse words on a Brooklyn firefighter's locker. The department has since said it won't enforce the ban on "appropriate material" such as flags.
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