Legal Beagle Grenfell fire legal proceedings five years on Vincent Reynolds, a principal lawyer at Thompsons Solicitors, on Grenfell Fire legal proceedings five years on from the...
News Grenfell firefighters settle for £20m in High Court Firefighters who attended the Grenfell Tower fire have settled claims for £20m in the High Court. The 114 affected...
Features Grenfell justice #Demand charges Calls for charges against the greedy and the guilty for the Grenfell Tower fire are growing, reports Helen Hague On 14...
News Grenfell: building safety: lessons still not learned 14 June 2025 marked eight years since the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people. Firefighters took part in the...
Features Grief, anger and vindication The final Grenfell Tower Inquiry report blamed government and construction firms. Matt Wrack commends the public...
Features Grim, but there is hope FBU national officer Riccardo la Torre discusses the latest findings from FBU sponsored research on firefighting and...
Features He secured a voice for the FBU Firefighter talks to Rosalind Eyben, daughter of the wartime FBU general secretary John Horner and his wife Pat, about...
News High rise fire in Hong Kong Over 146 people are known to have died in a huge fire across multiple apartment blocks in Hong Kong. The fire broke out...
News High-rise evacuation response: too little, too late The Home Office published high rise evacuation guidelines for fire and rescue services in February, four years after...
Sounding off How a hotel fire shows reality of cuts Joe Weir, FBU executive council member for South East England, says effects are clear. Very rarely does a single...
News HSE plans inspections over fire contaminants The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has set out plans to start inspecting fire and rescue services to regulate...
Gen Sec comment If you want change, you must vote Since the last issue of Firefighter, the FBU has held our annual conference and firefighters have voted to accept a pay...
Equalities Insightful and empowering More than 30 union members from all around the UK attended the FBU LGBT+ school in Brighton. Graeme Hopkins reports For...
Features 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...
Equalities It starts with men Lewis Clark, Scotland east area chair, on why White Ribbon Day should inspire men to take action White Ribbon Day...
Features It was self-sacrifice on an almost indescribable scale The latest red plaques to be unveiled honour the bravery, service, humanity and selflessness of firefighters who gave...
Features It’s about power Pat Carberry, the FBU national secretary for LGBT+ members, has a 100% success rate defending firefighters at tribunals...
Features It’s like a family Issues facing retained duty firefighters – pay, crewing and the impact of more floods and wildfires – are the same as...
Meet the rep Karen Bell - black and ethnic minority members section national chair 1. What made you want to become a rep? Having had no interest in the trade union movement, on joining the fire service...
Equalities Labour and TUC women's conferences 2022 'We demand that employers make policy and provision for issues affecting women' FBU members took part in the women's...
News Labour backs FBU pay campaign Labour Party conference delegates unanimously passed an FBU-supported motion backing firefighters on pay. Successful...
News Leaders ‘letting down’ firefighters Firefighters in Wales have been let down by failings of senior leadership, Sound the Alarm, a report by the Senedd’s...
Sounding off Learning lessons Gary Ironmonger, who was a miner at Cortonwood in South Yorkshire, reflects on his experiences of the 1984-5 miners’...
Legal Beagle Legal Beagle Trade union law specialist Neil Todd of Thompsons Solicitors, on recent sackings of P&O workers The sacking of 800...
