Photograph caption dated August 26, 1986 reads, "Paramedics picket outside Los Angeles City Hall East to protest what they say are unsafe working conditions and the way that they are treated. Inside, negotiators for the city and paramedics met yesterday for the first time in three weeks to discuss a contract. "We're the fire department's adopted children," charged Roger Berger of the United Paramedics of Los Angeles. "We (crews) sometimes take 700 calls a month. The safe maximum is 350." But Battalion Chief Dean Cathey said that firefighters also respond to the same calls and they aren't complaining. Neither side discussed wage issues."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;16 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.).--Fire Department Emergency medical technicians--California--Los Angeles Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles Picketing--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles City halls--California--Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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