Lobbying

Please see a pro forma letter, add your own reason for supporting firefighters and send it to your MP via: https://www.writetothem.com/ or www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/ Pay more Before 2010, firefighters already contributed one of the highest proportions of their salary towards their...

What: Meeting of European firefighters Where: Fire Service Training Centre Westburn Drive, Cambuslang, Glasgow G72 1AA When: 12:30pm, Tuesday 28 October 2014 Firefighters from across Europe will meet in Glasgow for a European Public Service Union (EPSU) meeting to discuss the pressures facing fire...

Firefighters in Dorset and Wiltshire have laid down a marker by telling politicians that they “will not pay for cuts with our jobs, our service and the safety of firefighters and the public”. The statement comes as the Fire Brigades Union publishes its response to a public consultation considering a...

What: Britain needs a pay rise march from Embankment to Hyde Park, London When: 11am, Saturday 18 October 2014 Where: Assemble at Embankment, London (by Blackfriars station) Firefighters will be joining the TUC organiseed “Britain needs a pay rise” march through London on 18 October 2014. The march...

The Focus E15 mothers of Stratford, East London have received a message of solidarity from the Fire Brigades Union. The group of 29 mothers are campaigning to highlight the number of empty properties in the London Borough of Newham at a time when thousands of people are on waiting lists for social...

When: 11am onwards, Thursday 2 October 2014 Where: Roald Dahl Plass, The Oval Basin, Cardiff Bay, CF10 6AN Senior managers at North Wales Fire and Rescue Service have warned that if their budgets continue to be frozen then frontline services would have to be reduced – days before the FBU’s anti-...

When: 12 noon, Friday 26 September 2014 Where: Riverside Grass, South Bank, London SE1 9BB (behind ITV London Studios, between Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges) Russell Brand will be speaking at the Fire Brigades Union’s “Ring of Fire” anti-cuts event when it comes to London on Friday 26 September...

The Fire Brigades Union exhibited a stall, held a fringe meeting and put on the Ring of Fire show at this year’s annual Labour party conference in Manchester. The stall was packed out with visitors eager to hear about, and get a copy of, the union’s new report Sounding the alarm: the future of our...

Striking firefighters joined the People’s Assembly march through London on Saturday 21 June protesting against the government’s austerity policies. Campaigners estimate over 50,000 people took part in the march, which began at BBC Broadcasting House and ended up next to the Houses of Parliament in...