Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary said: “As part of our campaign to defend firefighter pensions the union has been building up solid arguments and evidence so that we can put forward a challenge to the case put by government against us. It is therefore with great pleasure that I commend this independent report to you. The authors, Tony Cutler and Barbara Waine, have already written some excellent papers on pensions – most recently on the Hutton report.
“The FBU believes that the report should be widely read and the arguments in this paper should be discussed by all stakeholders in the fire and rescue service. I hope that this document which broadly supports the arguments put forward by the union also helps to raise the level of discussions on pensions.”
