Conference applauds the Living Wage Campaign and supports the work of the TUC, STUC, Trade unions, campaigners and The Living Wage Foundation in persuading employers to implement the Living Wage...
1. Austerity Cuts Unprecedented cuts to central and local funding The fire and rescue service has experienced a prolonged period of budget cuts, which started before 2010 but have accelerated since...
This Conference recognises the suffering of the people of Gaza following the ongoing blockade and the continued occupation of the Palestine territory against them by the Israeli Government. We also...
Conference notes with concern that since the election in 2010, the Coalition Government has used Freeze Grants as a means of keeping down Council Tax. These are one-off Government payments to those...
LGBT Members remind Conference of the advances made with the introduction of legislative change to afford equal protection to people who are LGBT. Stonewall have been a leading figure in the political...
Many FBU members will be extremely concerned at attempts by Fire and Rescue Services (F&RS’s) to introduce Shift and Duty systems which do not form part of, or comply with, the Scheme of Conditions of...
This Conference notes the number of local fire control rooms that are threatened with closure following the collapse of the FiReControl project and calls on the FBU to reiterate it's commitment to...
This Conference notes the Executive Council meeting paper No. 180/10MW ‘Social Networking, Internet Discussion and other Electronic communication.’ Conference asks that the guiding principles are...
Confer ence is extremely concerned with the increased use of overtime within the Fire & Rescue Service. Recruitment freezes have led to shortfalls in establishments and overtime is being used to cover...
The introduction of the Continuous Professional Development payment (CPD) in 2007 also came with some national guidance from the FBU. In the time since then considerable local variation in the...
