Pay discussions 2025: letter to fire service employers

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Dear Brother/Sister, Pay discussions 2025: letter to fire service employers After years of attacks on our pay, the past three years (2022, 2023, 2024) have seen some improvement in the settlements...

Fire and Rescue (England): Ministerial Advisory Group

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Dear Brother/Sister Fire and Rescue (England): Ministerial Advisory Group The FBU has made consistent criticism of the level of localisation and fragmentation in the fire and rescue service. We have...
Firefighter standing in ruins of residential flats after cladding fire

FBU urges faster action on "disgraceful" cladding crisis

By Alice Dann
The government has today announced a plan for the removal of unsafe cladding. It comes as the House of Commons debates Phase 2 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Under the plan, all 18m+ buildings must have been remediated by 2029, and all 11m+ buildings must have a date for remediation. Matt Wrack...

National Audit Office report on dangerous cladding

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Dear Brother/Sister National Audit Office report on dangerous cladding The National Audit Office published its report, Dangerous cladding: the government’s remediation portfolio, on 4 November. The...

Storm Bert, flooding and extreme weather

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Dear Brother/Sister, Storm Bert, flooding and extreme weather The FBU is immensely proud of our members, who worked tirelessly in recent days during Storm Bert, to rescue people and serve our...
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Time to deliver

On Tuesday 8 October, with the new government barely 100 days old, around 1,000 firefighters gathered in central London for a national rally and lobby of parliament. It was a serious show of strength and dedication from FBU members. Our headline for the day was “rebuild our fire service”. This can...
Matt Wrack speaking from podium in front of a new deal for working people sign

Intervening to fight for our service and our rights

Riccardo la Torre reflects on this year’s TUC congress and Labour conference, and explains why the FBU gets stuck in Politics intervenes regularly in our work. Cladding fires, including the Grenfell Tower fire are occurring because ministers scrapped regulations which kept people safe. Firefighters...
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Winter fuel allowance

Trade unions are pushing for Labour to reverse plans to cut the winter fuel allowance, branding the policy “cruel and unnecessary”. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that around 10 million pensioners in England and Wales will lose their winter fuel payments. The number of pensioners eligible...
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