Fire and Rescue Service Matters

The union is campaigning for a safe standard of five firefighters on every fire engine, backed by investment from central government to ensure the speed and weight of response.

Firefighter jobs continue to be cut, despite promises made by the Westminster government to implement change.

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry (GTI) report published in December is a damning indictment of central government failure over forty years. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) believes the Inquiry's recommendations are a start at rectifying systemic failure, but the union wants the new ministers to go much...

After fourteen years of austerity, there are too few firefighters to guarantee resilience to the public, according to new figures obtained by the Fire Brigades Union.

The fire and rescue service still needs sustained investment, despite the first above-inflation central funding increase for more than a decade.

After more than a decade of austerity, firefighter jobs continue to be cut according to new figures analysed by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU).

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is sounding the alarm over ministers’ proposals to deregulate the furniture regulations, revoking longstanding mandatory tests to be replaced by so far unseen voluntary guidance.

A woman firefighter in Cornwall receives £15,000 less than her equal in Derbyshire. Surely this cannot be right and is a stark case of inequality. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is campaigning to level up maternity provision across the UK fire and rescue service.

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...