"Performing is all about change"
Helen Hague talks to activist performer Mark Thomas, whose acclaimed new show, The Red Shed, goes to the heart of the issues facing working people today. When Mark Thomas moved from London to Wakefield in West Yorkshire to study drama in the early 1000s he soon found himself drawn to “the 47ft long...
Pay: No easy answer, but we will continue to challenge the government.
The National Joint Council has agreed an increase in pay rates of 1%, applying from 1 July. A central policy of the Tory government, the public sector pay squeeze means FBU members and their families have seen living standards fall since the financial crash. The anger over this was reflected at our...
FIREFIGHTERS PROTEST AGAINST POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONERS’ PLANS TO TAKE OVER THE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE
Photocall: 11am 26 April 2016 - Old Palace Yard, Westminster, SW1A. Firefighters protesting around the third and final reading of the Police and Crime Bill as it goes through the House of Commons, will be at Old Palace Yard tomorrow morning at 11am prior to lobbying their MPs at Westminster. The...
West Midlands firefighters to demonstrate outside the fire service HQ
What: Lobby of the West Midlands Fire Authority Where: West Midlands Fire Service HQ, Vauxhall Road, Birmingham, B7 4HW. When: 10am, Monday 23 November 2015 Large numbers of West Midlands firefighters will hold a demonstration outside West Midlands Fire Service headquarters on Monday morning ahead...
Firefighters step up anti-cuts campaign in Gloucestershire
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in Gloucestershire will be stepping up their campaign against cuts to the local fire and rescue service this weekend. Gloucestershire County Council are planning a series of cuts to the frontline fire service which local firefighters say are dangerous and will...
Video | Defend workers’ rights – oppose the Trade Union Bill
“We need to build a mass movement and stop this Government in its tracks!” FBU leader Matt Wrack sets out an uncompromising message as firefighters joined with Trade Union colleagues to demonstrate against the unfair, unjust and undemocratic Trade Union Bill.
Firefighters to join TUC lobby against the Trade Union Bill 'stitch up'
Firefighters in uniform plan to converge outside the Houses of Parliament today in protest at the proposed Trade Union Bill, which is being condemned as the most savage assault on the rights of working people in decades. The firefighters, who will be travelling to London from all over the country...
