Equality

Fire control operators in Essex will be on strike throughout mother’s day this Sunday in a dispute which has forced women and mothers out of the workplace. Essex Country Fire and Rescue Service imposed a radically changed shift system that means control operators are forced to work 12 hour shifts...

Firefighters have warned the government that cutting provisions that help low income families replace old and unsafe electrical goods could increase the risk of fire and fatalities. The government is currently consulting on a cut to funding for the local welfare provision (the successor scheme to...

Trevor Shanahan, FBU union learning fund project manager, said: “The FBU ULF Team, working in partnership with West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service, have been raising awareness of Dyslexia in the workplace and promoting good practice in supporting employees who have dyslexia. “Out of this...

When: 7:30pm, 12 December 2014 Where: Manchester Academy 2, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR Paul Heaton, formerly of the Beautiful South, will be performing with Jacqui Abbott at Manchester Academy 2 along with the the Golinski Brothers and the Lottery Winners, to raise money for campaign and...

The Focus E15 mothers of Stratford, East London have received a message of solidarity from the Fire Brigades Union. The group of 29 mothers are campaigning to highlight the number of empty properties in the London Borough of Newham at a time when thousands of people are on waiting lists for social...

The FBU backed show Pits and Perverts will be on stage in London and Belfast this October, returning after a successful run last year. Set in 1984 at the height of the miners’ strike, Pits and Perverts tells the uplifting story of the Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) group and their...

Members of the Fire Brigades Union will take part in the London Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride parade will take place on Saturday 28 June. The Trade Union Congress, which helps sponsor the event, estimates that 15,000 will take part in the event, and a large contingent of firefighters...

The Fire Brigades Union has launched an age discrimination legal challenge against the government over plans to reduce firefighters’ pensions by different amounts dependent upon age. As part of the proposed 2015 firefighter pension scheme, firefighters who retire between 55 and 60 will receive...