r/Firefighting • u/Quick_Connection6818 • May 04 '25

News Further cuts at NIOSH including firefighters cancer registry

Among the newly terminated are those employees who worked for the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer. After CBS reported on those firings on Friday night, HHS pushed back, claiming that no CDC employee had been laid off and that the firefighter health and safety programs would remain “top priority” for the agency.

A source who worked for the firefighter registry disputed each of HHS’s claims, confirming that they’d been fired on Friday evening and noting that the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer had already been closed to new applicants. The agency’s website affirmed that the program was taken offline.

https://www.progressreport.news/p/rfk-jr-massacre-paves-way-to-give

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u/SquirrelyStu May 04 '25

Fuck Ed Kelly and Fuck the IAFF for not taking a stand against Trump prior to the election. Not everybody loved Harris, but nobody can deny Trump and the GOPs history of attacks on organized labor.

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u/PhaedrusZenn May 04 '25 edited May 04 '25

You gotta look at the body, more than the leadership. It's our brothers and sisters who would have thrown a fit and threatened, or followed through, to leaving the IAFF and their locals, had the IAFF endorsed Harris. These are the same people who unironically come to the fire station with "Better to be a Russian than a Democrat" t-shirts at shift change.

Sometimes FAFO is the only hope of them "getting it"...

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u/an_angry_Moose Career FF May 04 '25

Ain’t that the truth.