Retained Duty System (RDS) Pensions Employment Tribunal Claims
FBU condemns "outrageous and authoritarian" suspension of four Labour MPs
Labour has today suspended the whip from four MPs for their role in a rebellion over welfare cuts. Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: "It's an outrageous and authoritarian act. "The Labour leadership has clearly learned nothing from the huge outpouring of anger that the cuts...
Firefighters’ union joins call for government to take water into public ownership
The Fire Brigades Union has joined calls for the government to bring water into public ownership to ensure clean and adequate water supply firefighters need to safely tackle fires. The findings contained in the final report of the Westminster and the Welsh governments’ “Independent Water Commission”...
“Introduce a wealth tax, don’t raid firefighter pensions”: FBU hits back at Whitehall proposals
The Fire Brigades Union has slammed proposals to reduce public sector pensions in what the union has described as a “false trade off driven by austerity”. According to reports from the Telegraph, Catherine Little, permanent secretary to the Cabinet Office, has been heading discussions in Whitehall...
Former Labour leader joins calls for Starmer to tax wealth
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock called for a wealth tax this weekend, telling the Guardian that Starmer should target wealth above £6m or £7m, where a 2% tax would raise £10bn or £11bn a year. Responding to Kinnock's comments, Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: Introducing...
Departing the department
After nine years at the Home Office, fire and rescue policy has finally been transferred back to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; a move recommended by the Grenfell Inquiry and supported by the FBU. Responsibility for fire and rescue was shifted to the Home Office under...
Cruel cuts to benefits will affect disabled workers - including FBU members
Cuts to Personal Independent Payments (PIP) threaten to make life harder for thousands – including FBU members, writes Dawn Forrest of the FBU Disabled and Neurodivergent members forum Westminster plans set out in April will tighten the eligibility criteria for PIP, so that claimants must meet...
Shut it down!
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...
Conference round up: 2025
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...
