This Conference recognises that aerial appliances are lifesaving appliances and play an essential safety role at many incidents, often forming a key element of safe operating procedures. In many...
Conference is dismayed at the increases we are seeing regarding Fire and Rescue Services attempting to introduce new types of fi re service vehicles to respond to emergency incidents with reduced...
Conference is appalled that some Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs), following cuts to their budgets or for other organisational reasons seek to provide the bare minimum of required training to fi refi...
Conference acknowledges the fundamental importance of the National Joint Council (NJC), particularly surrounding its facility of providing a crucial forum where employer and employee representatives...
Conference is deeply concerned at the increasing trend by a number of Fire and Rescue Authorities who employ private companies within their own authority to offset the pressures of austerity placed...
Conference notes that the Equality Act provides protections against discriminatory treatment based on the concept of ‘Protected Characteristics’. Currently workers with a terminal illness are not...
Conference instructs the Executive Council to develop a defi nitive policy using all available UK and international research data which will assist local offi cials in negotiations aimed at providing...
As members of the Local Government Pension Scheme, control staff are currently required to work until they reach state pension age, which from December 2018 will start to increase for both men and...
Conference acknowledges the extremely stressful and demanding role carried out by our Members in Emergency Fire Controls across the United Kingdom. Like that of operational Members the role of Control...
Conference notes with concern that North West Fire Control is not a member of the National Joint Council (NJC) for Local Authority Fire and Rescue Services. North West Fire Control employs FBU Members...
