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This paper is provided to outline the position of the Fire Brigades Union on the various proposals we face in relation to the pensions of those working in the fire and rescue service. We are not convinced at all of the need for further changes to public sector pensions, including those in the fire...

Pension ballot looks inevitable, high profile for FBU at TUC, FBU defends retained firefighters’ pensions and control members threatened by LGPS changes.

The FBU is stepping up our campaign to defend firefighter pensions. The union has been building up solid arguments and evidence so that we can knock down the case put by government against us. It is therefore with great pleasure that I commend this report to you. Tony Cutler and Barbara Waine have...

A report on the impact of the governments’ proposal for members of the firefighters’ pension scheme and the new firefighters’ pension scheme; by Rob Hammond of First Actuarial consultants.

The Fire Brigades Union is appalled by government attacks on retained firefighters’ pension rights and is determined to resist them.FBU members won the right for retained firefighters to join the modified pension scheme following an extensive legal battle. But the Westminster government are still...

Anger as employers refuse to make a pay offer, FBU vindicated on FiReControl, union ratchets up action over cuts and your questions answered on pensions.

The Westminster government’s cash-grab on public sector pensions will cost offi cers at least £5,000 over three years, starting from April 2012. They want to phase in extra contributions of £100 a month, rising to £200 a month by 2014.

The New Firefighters Pension Scheme (NFPS), introduced from 6th April 2006 and open to all firefighters as an opt-out scheme, includes a normal retirement age of 60. The Hutton proposals for the Firefighters Pension Scheme (FPS), the scheme preintroduction of the NFPS which closed to new entrants on...

The Fire Brigades Union believes that more firefighters will opt out of their pension scheme or even leave the service if the government’s pensions proposals are implemented. Those are some of the key conclusions from the YouGov firefighters’ survey commissioned by the union1 .

Record of 2011 Annual Conference Decisions Southport. Fire Brigades Union 86th Annual Conference Southport 17th-20th May 2011.