Conference instructs the Executive Council to commence negotiations with the National Employers to ensure that Continual Professional Development payments form an integral part of core pay.
Conference instructs the Executive Council to conduct a study into duty systems and ways of working within FRSs which breach the WTR, to be completed by Conference 2023. This will include; FRSs...
Conference notes that it is three years since Conference instructed the Executive Council (EC) to discuss with the National Joint Council (NJC) the need to equalise CPD payments across the UK, to...
Conference recognises the level of commitment that is given by firefighters working the Retained Duty System and that the retaining fee falls short of adequately compensating them for their commitment...
Executive council (as amended by Hereford and Worcester)
Conference notes that the Westminster Government has been preparing an unprecedented series of attacks on fire and rescue services governance arrangements, on firefighters’ rights to collective...
The current Region 11 was created following the decision of Conference in May 2015 to merge the precursor regions 11 (south east) and 12 (southern). The merger has been monitored since its inception...
Conference notes that for half a century, public sector pay in the UK has been bound within narrow constraints by central government, with public sector workers facing a long-term attack. Westminster...
Conference notes that over the last 18 months, the Covid-19 virus has made around five million people sick, put almost half a million in hospital and led to more than 150,000 deaths in the UK. The...
Executive council (amended by Hereford and Worcester)
Conference is appalled that the Westminster government continues to impose austerity on the fire and rescue service, more than ten years after the economic crash and despite the approaching two year...
Conference 2018 were informed that the executive council had agreed to commission an audit of the Union’s structures. It was agreed that this work would be conducted by an external consultant. The...