Minimum Service Levels (MSLs) – the beginning of the end for this disgraceful legislation
Fire Brigades Union slams "authoritarian attack" on workers in Conservative manifesto
The Fire Brigades Union has responded to the Conservative manifesto pledge to continue to use the draconian minimum service levels legislation against trade unions. The manifesto states that "to limit the impact of industrial action on public services and balance the ability of workers to strike...
Firefighters pressure employers not to implement new anti-union laws
The Fire Brigades Union has launched fresh calls for fire and rescue service employers to refuse the government’s minimum service levels, which amounts to an attempt to ban firefighters and control staff from taking strike action. The FBU is calling on firefighters and members of the public to...
Learning lessons
Gary Ironmonger, who was a miner at Cortonwood in South Yorkshire, reflects on his experiences of the 1984-5 miners’ strike On Sunday 4 March 1984, I attended a packed Cortonwood National Union of Mineworkers meeting to discuss the announcement of the closure of our pit. Along with 400 others, I...
'Fundamentally flawed’: Welsh Government hits back at ‘minimum service levels’
The Fire Brigades Union has welcomed Welsh Government opposition to Westminster’s new minimum service levels regulations for the fire and rescue service. In a letter to fire minister Chris Philp, Hannah Blythyn, Welsh Deputy Minister for Social Partnership, has condemned the Act as an “unworkable...
Doctors' strikes
Dr Emma Runswick, deputy chair of the council of the British Medical Association and a doctor in psychiatry, says stick together and win together Doctors across the UK are campaigning for full pay restoration. We deserve to be paid the same in real terms as doctors earned in 2008. Across the grades...
‘Positive outcome’ as control strike off after improved offer
Merseyside fire control members voted to accept an improved offer following last minute negotiations in late December before they were due to go on strike. FBU control room members had voted 100% to strike on a turnout of 92% and were set to strike for eight consecutive days from 27 December...
'If we don't fight we're dead'
The FBU brought together activists to assess and learn from a struggle the government would rather ignore, Barrie Clement reports (Photo credit: Ray Rising/reportdigital.co.uk) March this year is the fortieth anniversary of one of the most bitter political and industrial conflicts in British history...
