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 ...
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 ...
The long running firefighters dispute finally came to an ... One delegate said: "I am absolutely disgusted with the vote - it is a disgraceful decision." Andy Brickels, chairman of the union's ...
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 ...
Firefighters and control staff have rejected a 5pc pay offer and started voting on industrial action on Monday. The result is due in the new year. The FBU said Tuesday's (December 6) rally was ...
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 ...
SOUTH SIOUX CITY — As South Sioux City's population grows and the number of calls for emergency assistance climbs, city officials say the number of full-time firefighters the city employs needs ...