Pay strategy

Conference notes the following:

i) The Executive Council Policy Statement on ‘Firefighters Pay’ 2017, in particular the part which states:

2. "The union will launch a campaign, lobbying MPs and the employers, to explain how firefighters’ pay has fallen behind in recent years

3. The FBU will consult members via brigade committees and other channels in order to determine how to develop wider campaigning on pay

4. The FBU will continue to work with the other unions and the TUC/ STUC/ICTU on a campaign to ‘break the pay limit’.”

ii) The absence of a significant 2017 pay offer to address the years of pay restraint faced by FBU Members.

iii) The absence of any agreeable pay offer to consider the expansion of NJC rolemaps in line with the wider workstreams.

Therefore Conference demands that the Executive Council immediately begin to formulate a wider strategy/campaign on pay as per the 2017 Conference position, via membership consultation, and in doing so consider all political and industrial avenues available to us, including industrial action.