Publications

This Firefighter includes features on: wildfires highlighting the effects of cuts to the service and the need for better funding, training and PPE; the launch of ‘Fight for 52’, the union’s campaign under the equality banner, for maternity leave on full pay; and the need to fight savage cuts in...

Record of decisions from the 2023 Fire Brigades Union annual conference.

This issue reports on FBU annual conference where the Equality Matters campaign was launched. Other features include an interview with London firefighter Dave Badillo on Grenfell six years on; preparing for the next general election and; what’s next in protecting the right to strike. News covered...

Final agenda for FBU annual conference 2023

How FBU members’ unity won a fair pay offer is the main feature in this issue. Other features and news include an important update on pensions, the rescues effected by FBU members in Turkey, equality and the cultural review, an introduction to the newly elected AGS Ben Selby and monitoring...

The latest updates from FBU Scotland.

Firefighters and control staff across the UK have overwhelmingly accepted a new pay deal to end their months-long dispute over pay. The result makes the fire and rescue service one of the few areas of the public sector to resolve its pay dispute without strike action. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...

The Westminster government is planning to cut the fire and rescue service again next year in real terms, reducing investment in our communities and imposing further pay cuts on firefighters. The FBU believes that ministers have made the political choice to impose further cuts, even though they could...