Pension ballot looks inevitable, high profile for FBU at TUC, FBU defends retained firefighters’ pensions and control members threatened by LGPS changes.
The Fire Brigades Union is appalled by government attacks on retained firefighters’ pension rights and is determined to resist them.FBU members won the right for retained firefighters to join the modified pension scheme following an extensive legal battle. But the Westminster government are still...
Dear Brother/Sister, Members and officials will be aware that due to the continuing unacceptable delay in them implementing the legislation which will allow eligible RDS firefighters access to the...
Lessons from the Woolworths fire, proposed cuts to frontline services in the West Midlands, new fire and rescue service funding course and part-time workers’ settlement FAQs.
After years of concerted effort to achieve equality for firefighters working the retained duty system, the Fire Brigades Union has finished negotiating an agreement to bring parity between wholetime and retained on terms and conditions.
Union organising continues apace, Conference delegates call for substantial increase in retaining fees and FBU secures substantial payment for members in Warwickshire.
We heard our original evidence and submissions during the last two weeks of November 2001 and 7 February 2002 and after some time deliberating in Chambers we issued our original Decision entered in the Register and sent to the parties on 22 July 2002. There were then a succession of appeals –...
FBU member Shane Bedward on how the union stood by him during troubled times, two Humberside RDS stations saved and union warns against electrinic monitoring for pay.
Historic legal victory end discrimination against RDS firefighters, closures in Humberside deferred and RDS membership rises though recruitment campaign.
