Conference 2026
Conference round up: 2025
Every year hundreds of delegates, elected from FBU brigades across the UK, travel to the union’s annual conference to democratically decide the union’s priorities, policies, and rules. Firefighter reports on the main decisions and debates from the conference floor in Blackpool’s Imperial hotel this...
Firefighters union warns UK is “vulnerable to disasters” in call for Labour to fund the fire service
The Fire Brigades Union has today called for the Labour government to provide urgent funding for the fire and rescue service, saying austerity has left UK “vulnerable to disasters”. Fire and rescue services have been decimated by cuts in the past fourteen years, with 1 in 5 firefighter posts axed –...
Rise of far right presents imminent threat to UK workers’ rights, says firefighter union conference
The Fire Brigades Union has warned the Labour government against “surrendering to the far right”, describing the rise of the Reform UK party as an “imminent threat to workers in the UK”. At the union’s annual conference, firefighter delegates today passed a motion calling for the trade union and...
Reeves must tax the rich, says union leader
FBU general secretary Steve Wright has commented on a report that a memo from Angela Rayner to the Chancellor called for a series of alternatives to welfare cuts, such as increasing the rate of corporation tax on banks. It suggested extending the freeze on the threshold at which the 45% tax rate is...
