Trade unions

FBU members in Manchester met with the Trade Union Blues, a group of football fans taking on profiteering club owners and organising as trade unionists. Steve Morgan reports You’ll never walk alone may be the preferred terrace anthem at Anfield. But as Manchester’s football-loving firefighters – be...

French unions, including public sector unions representing firefighters, have organised nationwide strikes against government austerity this autumn: demanding a tax on the super-rich to fund services. Up to one million demonstrators took part in a strike across France on 18 September. And protesters...

Firefighter catches up with FBU activists at the union’s first Young Members’ School this summer Recep (Aj) HAWKINS Avon   Age 21   I joined Avon Fire and Rescue Service in December 2021 and did 14 months on call before applying to go wholetime - that’s when I met FBU reps. Since then I’ve been to a...

Birmingham bin workers’ fight against pay cuts has seen them take on the city council – and the government – in one of the most significant strikes of recent years, writes Paula Dunne of Strike Map Climbing into the minibus at quarter to five in the morning, nine of us travelled to Birmingham as...

Every year hundreds of delegates, elected from FBU brigades across the UK, travel to the union’s annual conference to democratically decide the union’s priorities, policies, and rules.  Firefighter reports on the main decisions and debates from the conference floor in Blackpool’s Imperial hotel this...