Industrial action

Emergency control staff will be in parliament on Wednesday to lobby their MPs over the continuing dispute in Essex about an imposed and untenable shift system. FBU control members in Essex have been on strike for the past week over staff being forced out of the workplace through the introduction of...

The strike by Essex emergency fire control staff, over an unworkable shift system change, has reached its seventh day. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service have imposed a radically different shift system on the professional control operators who are now forced to work 12 hour long shifts resulting...

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...

The catalogue of failures of the alleged state-of-the-art mobilising system in Essex fire control continues to grow. Amid the nine-day strike of professional 999 control staff, three separate incidents have been reported highlighting the on-going failures of the new IT system to get the correct...

Fire control operators in Essex have extended their strike action, over working conditions, to nine days now ending at 07:00 on Thursday 19th March. Originally taking place for 72 hours, the strike was extended to last eight days before another day’s strike was announced. This news comes the same...

999 Fire Control operators in Essex have completed the first of the eight days of strike action as senior managers continue to ignore cost-neutral alternatives that could avert the industrial action. Taking place from 10 – 18 March the strike has been called over imposed shift changes which have...

Emergency 999 control operators have escalated strike action, to commence this week, up to eight days as Essex fire chiefs continue to ignore cost-neutral alternatives that could avert the industrial action. Not only will this be the longest strike to date but all the strikers are likely to be women...

Emergency 999 control operators in Essex will strike for three consecutive days over a radical change in shift patterns that have resulted in a number of staff being forced to quit their jobs, cut their hours, and many more being forced to consider doing the same. Control operators will walk out for...

Essex firefighters and 999 control operators have been locked out by management extending strike action by 21 hours. Despite numerous attempts from the FBU in Essex to negotiate with the service to avert the strike, including putting forward alternative plans that would meet all the savings the...