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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has made a historic move as the first trade union to re-affiliate to the Labour Party, more than a decade after it withdrew its support. Union delegates voted for the FBU to support the Labour Party, reinvigorated after the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader, at a...

The former Fire Brigades Union (FBU) official who moved the resolution for the union to disaffiliate from the Labour party has come out in favour of the union’s new political strategy, which calls for re-affiliation. In an open letter to members Tony Maguire, who served as the regional secretary of...

The Fire Brigades Union have called a special conference that will debate, amongst other issues, whether the union should re-affiliate to the Labour party following the election of FBU parliamentary group founder member Jeremy Corbyn as leader. The FBU was an affiliate to the Labour party from the...

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) today announced they are calling a special conference in November for firefighters to debate and then vote on whether the union re-affiliates to the Labour party. The FBU disaffiliated from Labour during 2004 after a bitter pay dispute under the Blair government. The...