Chicago tried to fix the ambulance-to-firetruck ratio and the firefighters union president said there would be "rioting in the streets" if they messed with the numbers. That's not a negotiation, that's a threat. Meanwhile the quoted tweet points out a new firetruck costs $2.5 million because private equity has its fingers in everything. The union has real leverage in a city that depends on them. But threatening riots over budgeting math is how you tell someone the conversation isn't about public safety, it's about protecting turf.