Firefighters’ 2% pay offer “utterly inadequate”

By Ben Duncan-Duggal
Firefighters and firefighter control staff have responded angrily to a 2% pay offer from fire and rescue employers. The union’s executive council is recommending rejection of the pay offer to members. The 2% pay offer is against a current rate of inflation of 9.1% (CPI, year on year to May 2022)...

Employers pay offer - 27 June 2022

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Dear Brother/Sister, EMPLOYERS PAY OFFER Please find attached the offer received today. This is just a short circular to bring it to your attention. A meeting of the Executive Council has been...
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Cost of living crisis: public sector workers bear the brunt

Since the last issue of Firefighter, the far reaching effects of the cost of living crisis can be felt across our movement. It is the result of global private profiteering and government mismanagement of the economy, and shows no sign of letting up. The cost of living measured by the consumer prices...

University College Union - trade dispute

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Dear Brother/Sister UNIVERSITY COLLEGE UNION - TRADE DISPUTE Yesterday (1st December), thousands of University College Union (UCU) members began 3 days of strike action in two separate disputes. UCU...
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Budget 2021: fire and rescue could be unable to face growing challenges

By Ben Duncan-Duggal
A lack of new funding for fire and rescue in the Budget and Spending Review could leave fire and rescue unable to deal with growing challenges including climate change, according to the Fire Brigades Union. The Budget and Spending Review contained no significant new central government funding...

FBU submission to the comprehensive spending review 2021

Front cover FBU submission spending review 2021
Since 2010, around 12,000 firefighter jobs have been cut across the UK – almost one-in-five (20%) of the total number of jobs, a travesty without precedent in the history of the fire and rescue service. The reduction of firefighter and emergency control staff jobs are now putting public and...

Pay settlement 2021

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The NJC has agreed an increase of 1.5% with effect from 1 July 2021. The following appendices contain the revised rates of pay. In all cases annual figures are rounded to the nearest pound and hourly...

NJC pay rise implemented

By Ben Duncan-Duggal
The FBU has agreed to the pay proposal put forward by fire and rescue service (FRS) employers. The Executive Council (EC) agreed to the implementation of the pay proposal on 28 June, after considering the results of a members’ consultation, which took place over a three week period. The National...

Firefighter magazine, June July 2021

Cover Firefighter magazine, June July 2021
This issue of Firefighter features trailblazing, hijab wearing firefighter Uroosa Arshid, who says firefighters can look like me; the union’s first virtual one day conference with guest speaker NEU general secretary Kevin Courtney, speaking against pay review bodies; the union’s safety victory on...

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