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FBU keeps up fight for pensions compensation to be paid quickly
The FBU has had multiple wins on pensions in the courts. This will mean substantial compensation for thousands of firefighters. The union is fighting hard to overcome a variety of bureaucratic and legal obstacles, and to get the money paid as quickly as possible. Solicitor Ivan Walker, who has...
The fight for your pension continues
National officer Mark Rowe spells out the current position on firefighters’ retirement prospects Pensions in the fire and rescue service have been under attack for decades. We are now expected to retire later and receive less. Much of this agenda has been pursued in the name of “modernisation”...
Government in court again
The FBU, with other public service unions as interested parties, recently took the government to court yet again over its 2013 public service pensions changes. Part of the judicial review case was that the government has, without parliamentary oversight, attempted to shift to members of pension...
