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Proscription and Protest  

With the government clamping down on protest rights, Thompsons Solicitors updates on the latest changes Since the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group, expressing support for the organisation now risks a 14-year prison sentence. Over 200 arrests have been...
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Culpable

A tower block fire in the nineties should have alerted politicians to the dangers of deregulation – instead they allowed homes to become ticking time bombs. Paul Hampton uncovers a web of complicity and deceit in the new FBU book on the causes of the Grenfell Tower fire  On 5 April 1991, fire...
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Why we need water back in public hands

The Fire Brigades Union has joined calls for the government to bring water into public ownership, to ensure the clean and adequate water supply firefighters need to safely tackle fires. Water companies are currently releasing record amounts of sewage into UK rivers and seas. This year, sewage was...
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Union call for Labour to stand firm on rights

Trade unions have pushed for Labour to deliver a legislative package of improvements to workers’ rights, which is now making its way through parliament as the Employment Rights Bill. The first changes are expected to come into effect this autumn, following the bill returning to the House of Commons...

FBU Grenfell book Culpable published

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Dear Brother/Sister, The FBU has published a book, Culpable: Deregulation, Austerity and the Causes of the Grenfell Tower Fire, as part of the union’s ongoing work to learn the lessons of the Grenfell...
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