The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has today announced that tens of thousands of firefighters and ... 32,500 of its members across the UK will participate in the vote in the next few weeks on whether ...
Around 55,000 firefighters across the UK will vote over the next few weeks on whether to stage the first national walk-out in the fire service for 25 years. A series of 24 or 48-hour strikes could ...
Firefighters have become the latest public sector union to vote for strike action as last-ditch talks failed to avert a walkout on Wednesday by teachers in England and Wales. Members of the Fire ...
Firefighters to vote on strikes, union says Hundreds of firefighters ... Pay for a trained firefighter is around £32,000 per year in the UK. A Scottish government spokesperson said: "The Scottish ...
It also said that within that same time, around one in five firefighter posts had been cut. Of the 73 per cent of members that voted, 88% voted to take strike action. In a separate ballot of ...
Oxfordshire has the ninth slowest firefighter response times in the UK according to a new study. Claims.co.uk researchers used Home Office data to analyse the call handling times, crew turnout ...
The Sheriff's Office reports that a volunteer firefighter was airlifted to UK Hospital for injuries sustained while fighting the fire—no word on that person's condition. The cause of the fire is ...
Trump visited a battalion in the Fire Department of New York at around 5.30pm yesterday evening carrying two Xeno's pizzas with him after being in court for his hush money criminal trial ...
Supervisors probably cannot wait past April 22 to vote on the county budget and local ... gave a presentation on the need for paid firefighters, especially in the eastern part of the county.