Legal Beagle Legal Beagle What does the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill mean for members? The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill would...
Legal Beagle Legal Beagle Amid talk of how employers and government might react to industrial action in the fire and rescue service, Thompsons...
Features Levelling the playing field Ahead of the union’s second disabled and neurodivergent members’ forum this January, Andrea Oates speaks to...
News Lobbies and protests stop cuts As firefighters rallied outside, Nottinghamshire council reversed £2m of cuts to the local fire service. FBU members in...
Features London July 2022: 2,496 emergency calls to control, 39 appliances off the run due to ‘insufficient staff’ Matt Wrack says the official report on a major wildfire incident is a damning indictment of the effect of cuts and...
Gen Sec comment Make sure your ballot is in the post on time POLITICAL BALLOT As this magazine lands on doorsteps across the UK, FBU members have just a few more days to vote in...
Gen Sec comment Making history A few days before Firefighter went to print, I attended a historic meeting. For the first time in more than 20 years...
Features Making visible the invisible Australian firefighters have led the way in researching and preventing exposure to PFAS, known as forever chemicals, in...
Features Maxed out? Do governments have to “balance the books” – and why is it always workers who pay the price? Professor Gregor Gall...
Features Meet the general secretary Steve Wright, the union’s newly elected general secretary, sat down with Francis Beckett to discuss his fire service...
Meet the rep Meet the rep Dave Turner, regional education and learning organiser and treasurer for the South East region, brigade organiser for...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Barry Johnstone, Scotland, Health & Safety 1. What made you want to become a rep? John McKenzie and Gus Sproul cornered me! Jokes aside, I was at a local branch...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Dan McNulty North Wales brigade vice chair 1. What made you want to become a rep? There was a vacancy on station, and a colleague asked would I be interested. I...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Gareth Cook, London regional treasurer 1. What made you want to become a rep? My whole family were involved in trade unionism and, as a consequence, I was...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Gus Sproul, (acting) regional chair, Scotland 1. What made you want to become a rep? I never really wanted to be a rep but I’ve got a lot of pals in the TU movement...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Jamie (Ted) McDonald, Scotland Jamie (Ted) McDonald, branch rep, Lochgelly, Scotland What made you want to become a rep? In 2023, I was part of the...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Kate Yhnell Kate Yhnell, Gloucestershire organiser and South West women’s rep 1. What made you want to become a rep? I wanted to...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Maccyla Turner, North West national women’s committee 1. What made you want to become a rep? I was asked regularly to become a women's rep and every time I declined. I had...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Maria Buck, LGBT+ national sectional chair 1. What made you want to become a rep? As a child my family lived through the pit strikes in the 1980s. During my...
Meet the rep Meet the Rep - Matthew Black, LGBT+ Rep, North West Meet Matthew Black LGBT+ rep, North West region 1.What made you want to become a rep? Coming to terms with being gay in...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Philip Williams, retained committee, East Midlands region What makes union official, retained rep for East Midlands Philip Williams tick?
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Philippa Smith, brigade organiser West Midlands 1. What made you want to become a rep? I’ve always been interested in the FBU, from sitting on the picket line with my...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Scott MacRory, H&S Scotland 1. What made you want to become a rep? I was ‘encouraged’ to become a rep by an existing area/brigade official on my...
Meet the rep Meet the rep - Sherry Kitson, North West control staff national committee 1. What made you want to become a rep? I didn’t want to become a rep. I had just returned from maternity leave and the...
