He’s not injured, but union let him keep ‘disability’
11th August 2011
A firefighter who retired on a $74,624 disability pension, only to compete in mixed-martial arts matches, will be allowed to keep collecting his tax-free checks for life even after being found fit to go back to work.
The city decided to throw in the towel in the groundbreaking case of John Giuffrida, 43, following a deadlocked vote last month by the Fire Department Pension Fund Board over whether he should have to return to his job once an independent medical review determined he was no longer disabled.
All the city officials on the board voted he should. All the fire-union officials voted he shouldn’t.
And you know that not one of those officials, on either side, is a Republican.