Fair Pay or Fire Strike - briefing for control members
Firefighters launch consultative ballot on pay
Firefighters and fire control staff are being balloted today over to whether accept a 5% pay offer from employers. The Fire Brigades Union’s executive council is recommending that members vote to reject the offer, which represents a significant real-terms pay cut and follows a decade of real-terms...
FBU MEMBERS WILL DECIDE ON 5% OFFER
FBU members are voting in a consultative ballot on a revised 5% pay offer. After the union’s executive council rejected a 2% offer after consultation among members, it decided to begin preparing a ballot for strike action. However, fire service employers then came back with an increased 5% offer...
Vote 'Reject' to 5%
Vote ‘Reject’ to 5% PAY For the last couple of months, I’ve been on the road, meeting and talking to members as part of the pay campaign. Up and down the country, members have told me loud and clear that they have had enough. Enough of pay cuts, enough of being insulted by this government, and...
5% Still not enough
FBU general secretary Matt Wrack explains the union’s strategy for achieving a fair pay offer Following an FBU campaign and preparation for strike action, fire service employers revised their pay offer to 5%. In June, they offered a 2% annual increase. The shift is the result of hard work by FBU...
Consultative pay ballot announced
The union will hold a consultative ballot of members on the revised 5% pay offer from Monday 31 October to Monday 14 November in the next step of the pay campaign. The Executive Council is recommending that members reject the offer. Prior to the revised 5% offer, the union’s leadership had rejected...
