Conference recognises the devastating impact that being diagnosed with a progressive or life threatening condition such as cancer or Parkinson’s disease can bring to an individual and their family...
Conference notes Emergency Resolution 4 – Firefighter Pensions in the Aftermath of the General Election, passed by Conference 2015. Conference further notes the inequity in actuarial reductions imposed...
Conference notes Section 4, Part C, Paragraph 28 of the Grey Book (as amended by CIRCULAR NJC/04/11) which states: “28. Where a part-time employee (including an employee on the retained duty system)...
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...
The past eight years have seen huge challenges to all workers in the public sector – and to their unions – as a result of the pay freeze and unprecedented levels of cuts as a result of austerity...
Conference recognises the increasing pressures placed upon Brigade Officials. Since the demise of the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council and national attendance standards being replaced by IRMPs...
Conference notes that since 2010, the Westminster government has systematically cut central funding to fire and rescue services across the UK. The National Audit Office report, Financial...
Conference condemns the prolonged and sustained financial attacks from successive governments on the UK Fire and Rescue Services. Chief Fire Officers and Fire Authorities consistently ‘fall into line’...
South Yorkshire as amended by Merseyside and Shropshire
Conference notes the varied nature and number of shift patterns in operation throughout the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Services. Furthermore, that some shift patterns exist with collective...
Hereford and Worcester as amended by South Yorkshire and Merseyside
Conference opposes the opportunistic methods employed by Brigades to impose an agenda of cuts to operational staff in the name of modernisation. Conference instructs Officials that when a Fire and...
