Industrial action

A new film about the Miner’s Strike will have it’s world premiere at the Sheffield Doc Fest this June. Still the Enemy Within, which was partly funded by the Fire Brigades Union, will be screened on at 1.45pm on 7 June and 8.30pm on the 11th, both times in the festival’s Showroom 4 . After both...

Broxbourne MP Charles Walker has spoken in support of a firefighter sacked for discussing strikes over firefighter pensions on social media. Campaigners across the country have argued for Cheshunt firefighter Ashley Brown, a father of three, to be reinstated. Walker told the Hertfordshire Mercury:...

Yesterday strike breakers lost control of a fire during a training exercise in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, causing the roof on their training centre to catch on fire, it has emerged. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service had to resort to calling in professional firefighters to work alongside...

A ban on voluntary overtime among firefighters in England, Wales and Scotland held as part of the Fire Brigades Union’s ongoing dispute with government over attacks on pensions ended on Friday at noon. At a meeting of the union’s executive council on Thursday, FBU officials agreed to seek further...

Firefighters are due to strike again today between 10am and 3pm over government attacks on their pensions. It will be the third consecutive day of strike action after strikes between noon and 5pm on Friday and 2pm and 2am on Saturday, and the 12th period since the dispute began. Matt Wrack, FBU...

The fire minister in Westminster has alternative pension proposals ready but failed to provide them to the Fire Brigades Union, a leaked letter reveals today. Brandon Lewis’ letter to fire authority chairs describes how the government has had fully-costed alternatives ready since 19 March, but...

The FBU has received a message of solidarity from several trade unions and the TUC. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of PCS, said: “Despite the FBU engaging in weeks of negotiation and presenting a barrage of unarguable evidence, the government has provoked these strikes by ignoring reason and...

Reacting to news that Edward and Sophie Windsor (“the Earl and Countess of Wessex”) will visit Weymouth fire station today during a strike by firefighters over pensions, Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: “This official visit reflects the universal appreciation of the vital...

Firefighters have expressed their “extreme concern” over Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service’s plans for this weekend’s strikes. Firefighters will walk out for three periods across the country over the weekend over “unsafe, unfair and unworkable” pensions proposals by central government. However...

Forthcoming strike action by firefighters over pensions has been been provoked by the government in Westminster and could be halted immediately by a revised pensions offer that takes the evidence into account, firefighters have said today. After three years of negotiations and a delay of 17 weeks...