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FBU ranks must organise
By Nick Holden
Fire Brigades Union members have voted to accept the staging of the second phase of their pay rise, with a three to one majority.
The ballot had a 56% turn-out, low by the FBU's standards, and was a major reversal since twelve months ago, when there was a nine to one majority for strike action to win a £30,000 salary for all fire fighters.
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By Nick Holden
The simmering firefighters' dispute is reaching a decisive phase, with a consultative ballot over what both the employers and the FBU's negotiators claim is the 'final' offer.
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Firefighters, postalworkers, Tube: Make it a Winter of Discontent!
By Gerry Bates
As Solidarity goes to press, more and more firefighters across the country are joining unofficial industrial action.
This battle comes just after the postalworkers' victory, through unofficial strikes, against Royal Mail bosses' attempt to impose unilateral changes in work conditions.
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The unofficial industrial action by firefighters is spreading, with over half of the FBU's brigades involved by Friday morning (Nov 6th). The action was initially taken by FBU activists closest to the union's leadership, and saw some of the strongest areas of the union working normally, but there are signs that that is slowly changing.
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As Solidarity goes to press, more and more firefighters across the country are joining unofficial industrial action.
This battle comes just after postal workers' victory, through unofficial strikes, against Royal Mail bosses' attempt to impose unilateral changes in work conditions.
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The London Region of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has held a comprehensive post-mortem on the 30k pay dispute.
London region rejected the final offer from the employers, and its activists were among those who pushed the dispute along after General Secretary Andy Gilchrist threw up his hands - right from the start, you might say!
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The FBU pay dispute ended on 12 June.
Worn down by government and media propaganda, and government threats to impose a settlement, and demoralised by their executive's refusal to fight, firefighters and control operators around the country had reluctantly accepted the employers' latest offer.
At a conference in Glasgow on 12 June their reps, most with great bitterness, respected their mandates and voted 3:1 for the executive's 'accept' motion.
Here we print the motion and those put up in opposition to it, and assessments by firefighters of the dispute and the future.
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By Jill Mountford
The leaders of the Fire Brigades Union are yet again recommending that their members accept a pay offer which they have negotiated with the employers and which is backed by the Government.
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A report from the CWU Conference and news from PCS, GMB, TGWU & FBU.
CWU conference: two narrow defeats for the left
By a delegate
The postal and telecom workers union, the CWU, met on 1-6 June. The General Conference:
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By Jill Mountford
"Get the Braziers Ready", urges the headline of a recent letter sent out to Fire Brigades Union members from their London regional office.
London and Merseyside are among some of the regions that have rejected Professor Frank Burchill's proposals on the long-running pay dispute. Yet, on the eve of the National Executive meeting in Sheffield (15 March), FBU activists around the country say it's too close to call as to whether Burchill's proposals will be voted down at the Executive.
