Trade unions

A protest against the government’s austerity policies will take place in central London on Saturday 21 June, the People’s Assembly has announced. Supporters of the group, which is a national movement campaigning against cuts and the privatisation of government services, will assemble at the BBC’s...

A new film about the Miner’s Strike will have it’s world premiere at the Sheffield Doc Fest this June. Still the Enemy Within, which was partly funded by the Fire Brigades Union, will be screened on at 1.45pm on 7 June and 8.30pm on the 11th, both times in the festival’s Showroom 4 . After both...

The FBU has received a message of solidarity from several trade unions and the TUC. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of PCS, said: “Despite the FBU engaging in weeks of negotiation and presenting a barrage of unarguable evidence, the government has provoked these strikes by ignoring reason and...

Ahead of a strike by the RMT today over the prospect of almost 1,000 redundancies on the London Underground, Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, has sent a message of solidarity to the union’s members. Wrack said: “On behalf of all members of the Fire Brigades Union I write to pass on...

Members of the National Union of Teachers will strike on Wednesday (26 March) over pension changes, workload, bureaucracy and performance-related pay. Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: “The Fire Brigades Union totally supports the NUT in their campaign to protect their members’ pensions and...

Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, has sent a letter of condolences and solidarity to the president of the RMT following the death of their general secretary, Bob Crow. In the letter, Wrack writes: “Before he was executed in 1915, IWW leader Joe Hill sent a telegram...

Reacting to news of the death of Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: "Bob was a good friend to me personally, and his passing is very sad news. He was also a great friend to the Fire Brigades Union as a whole, sharing a similar outlook on many issues facing our...

nternational Women’s Day takes place on Saturday 8 March, and The UN theme for this year is “Equality for Women is Progress for All”. Between 12 and 14 March, representatives from the Fire Brigades Union will be taking part in the TUC’s Women’s conference at Congress House in London. The FBU has...