Oldham Street, Manchester: Incident July 2013, The death of Brother Stephen Hunt
Watch | Support the Firefighters 100 Lottery
A new weekly lottery, the Firefighters 100 Lottery has been launched to help support the families of firefighters killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The first draw on Bonfire Night, 5 November. All tickets bought before the first draw on Saturday 5 November 2016 will be entered into a...
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...
Former FBU president Bill Deal dies at 83
Bill Deal, who served as president of the Fire Brigades Union from 1980 until 1987, has died at the age of 83 after a short illness. Born in 1932, Bill joined what was then West Ham fire brigade in 1957 before moving out to Essex with his young family in the early 1960s, serving at four different...
