Lobbying

Emergency control staff from Essex were in parliament on budget day Wednesday lobbying MPs over anti-family working shifts whilst also highlighting public safety fears over failing IT mobilising systems. It coincided with the end of a nine day strike in Essex over an imposed work shift system which...

At a lobby of parliament the FBU caught up with Dennis Skinner MP who praised firefighters and the union for standing up for working people, fighting cuts and defending their pensions.

Emergency control staff will be in parliament on Wednesday to lobby their MPs over the continuing dispute in Essex about an imposed and untenable shift system. FBU control members in Essex have been on strike for the past week over staff being forced out of the workplace through the introduction of...

At the Local Government Association conference, taking place in Gateshead, Westminster fire minister Penny Mordaunt once again refused to answer questions from firefighters over the sham ‘guarantee’ on pensions. Firefighters had attended the conference in the hope of having their questions answered...

What Time to act on climate march Where Assemble point: Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London (more details here) When 12:30 gathering for set off at 1pm, rally from about 2.15 outside Parliament (Abingdon Street) Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, will join thousands of demonstrators this Saturday on the...

The FBU has responded to an open letter from Westminster fire minister Penny Mordaunt to all firefighters. The letter, issued the day before firefighters took 24 hours of strike action, contained a number of inaccurate and misleading claims that Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, has corrected. You...

Firefighters have been congratulated after taking 24 hours of strike action and for rallying in their thousands at Westminster. 4,000 firefighters marched on the Houses of Parliament and 10 Downing Street demanding to speak to the prime minister about MPs being lied too over a false ‘guarantee’ on...

Firefighters from across the country are heading to Westminster to protest against the false ‘guarantee’ given to MP’s as part of a parliamentary debate into firefighter pensions. The union has already written to David Cameron and the speaker of the house asking them what they are going to do about...

Firefighters have demanded that the prime minister David Cameron and speaker of the house John Bercow take action over the way that MPs were misled by a government minister in a Parliamentary debate on firefighter pensions. Ministers informed MPs in the House of Commons, prior to a vote on the 2015...