Features Climate: government is asleep at the wheel As world leaders gather once again to discuss the climate crisis, Helen Hague looks at its impact on a UK fire service...
Sounding off Concrete scandal Our children deserve safe school buildings, says Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the NEU teachers’ union The...
Features Conference 2022 - Fundamental rights The first FBU conference since the pandemic took place in Brighton in May. It reminded us how valuable it is to discuss...
Features Conference round up: 2025 Every year hundreds of delegates, elected from FBU brigades across the UK, travel to the union’s annual conference to...
Features Contemptuous of democracy Government’s legislation to stop public sector workers taking effective strike action is unprecedented since wartime...
Features Control - part of the team We must rebuild links and strengthen solidarity inside the FBU, says Rebecca Lewington acting regional chair for...
News Control staff to strike for eight days Fire control staff in Merseyside are to take eight consecutive days of strike action from 27 December in a dispute...
Gen Sec comment Cost of living crisis: public sector workers bear the brunt Since the last issue of Firefighter, the far reaching effects of the cost of living crisis can be felt across our...
News Covid preparedness The first report by the UK Covid-19 inquiry, published in July, confirmed the impact of austerity on pandemic...
News Crew of three plans deferred after FBU protest outside fire authority meeting Firefighters staged a rally (above) outside a meeting of the Merseyside fire authority to oppose a dangerous reduction...
Features Crewing: countdown to disaster When fire and rescue services send firefighters out in crews of just three on a fire engine, lives are on the line...
Equalities Cruel cuts to benefits will affect disabled workers - including FBU members Cuts to Personal Independent Payments (PIP) threaten to make life harder for thousands – including FBU members, writes...
Features Culpable A tower block fire in the nineties should have alerted politicians to the dangers of deregulation – instead they...
News Cuts drive response times to record high Response times for fire incidents have risen to a decade-long high in fire services across England. Home Office data...
Features Dagenham: ‘It felt like it was raining fire’ Barrie Clement reports on another cladding blaze that could have ended in tragedy The call came through at 2.44am...
News Death of Barry Martin shocks the firefighting community FBU member Barry Martin died on Friday 27 January from injuries he sustained while attending a major fire at the former...
Features DECON - one year on The FBU's vital DECON campaign to better protect firefighters against toxic contaminants and prevent cancer has brought...
News DECON is becoming part of fire and rescue The FBU’s DECON campaign is becoming an important part of fire and rescue across the country. Events like a recent...
Features DECON: the way forward FBU general secretary Matt Wrack reflects on the DECON campaign so far and the fight ahead When it comes to the hidden...
Gen Sec comment Demanding justice, fighting for change This is the first issue of Firefighter magazine to be published under a Labour government in more than 14 years. No one...
What’s new Departing the department After nine years at the Home Office, fire and rescue policy has finally been transferred back to the Ministry of...
Equalities Disabled and neurodivergent members’ forum Calling all disabled and neurodivergent members Equality is a trade union principle and is a priority for the FBU. A...
Sounding off Doctors' strikes Dr Emma Runswick, deputy chair of the council of the British Medical Association and a doctor in psychiatry, says stick...
Features Don’t let them off the hook The Grenfell Tower public inquiry is set to publish its final report on 4 September, more than seven years after the...
