It is with great concern that Conference notes the rise in hate crime post-Brexit. Home Office statistics indicate an alarming trend in reporting of attacks on minorities including an increase of 147%...
Conference notes the absence of the FBU’s ‘Qualifications and Workforce Development in the UK Fire and Rescue Service (FRS)’ course from its education programme. Conference also notes the lack of...
Recent TUC research found that over half of working women had experienced some form of sexual harassment, with two thirds of women aged 18-24, experiencing some form of sexual harassment. Sexual...
Conference recognises the work that has gone into providing high quality training in the “Understanding and Handling Pensions and Medical Appeals Course” and thanks the education committee for their...
Conference acknowledges the valuable contribution made by our Union Learning Representatives across the UK. Providing educational opportunity is of fundamental importance to effect positive change...
Conference confirms that it will resist any attempt by any UK Government to remove the basic human right of the right to take strike action by firefighters and control Members. Conference confirms...
Conference demands that as a result of the ‘Brexit’ referendum vote, that the Fire Brigades Union actively seeks to ensure that our solidarity and unity with firefighter Unions and other left-wing...
Conference continues to note with concern the numbers of firefighters and control Members who suffer cancers with those cancers being more numerous and more aggressive than those suffered in the...
Conference recognises and applauds the large amount of research that has been carried out in several countries around the world, which has been brought to the attention of our Members, the potential...
Conference is concerned that certain Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) are defining a response time as the time of station alert (or even mobilisation) to time of first appliance in attendance. The...
