Firefighter magazine Feb/March 2016
Government legislation swamping trade unions in red tape
The government is swamping trade unions with crippling amounts of bureaucracy in an attempt to silence their critics, a House of Lords committee has heard. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) was one of several organisations who gave evidence to a Lords committee investigating aspects of the government’s...
UK firefighters send solidarity to French comrades
The Fire Brigades Union has sent a message of solidarity to firefighters in France, following the horrific terrorist attacks last week in Paris. Seven coordinated terror attacks left 129 people dead and hundreds injured. In the message Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, says firefighters in the UK...
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...
The government is removing the legal right to 'check-off' - don't let them silence you
Firefighters, along with almost 3.8 million other public sector workers, are at serious risk of losing the right to pay their union subscriptions directly from their pay packets, a process known as “check-off” which has been a right of trade union members since the post-war period. Union members can...
