Essex FBU take on lying bosses
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Firefighters have recommenced an industrial dispute with Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS) after the Chief Fire Officer refused to rule out frontline cuts.
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Firefighters first in line in cuts battle
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London firefighters are to be balloted for strike action this week after fire bosses began the process of mass sackings in a dispute over shift patterns.
London firefighters gearing up to fight cuts
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London firefighters will ballot for strike action unless their employer, the London fire authority, withdraws its threat to summarily dismiss the entire workforce and re-employ them on worsened terms and conditions.
London firefighters fighting mass sackings
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Firefighters in London are considering action after a dramatic breakdown in talks with their bosses, the LFEPA.
London firefighters take on bosses over mass sackings
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Firefighters in London are considering action after a dramatic breakdown in talks with their bosses, the LFEPA.
The Fire Brigade Union's case for "boycott Israel"
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John McGhee, FBU National Officer, spoke to Martin Thomas about the FBU’s “boycott Israel” motion to TUC Congress.
FBU conference rejects Labour Party reaffiliation
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The Fire Brigades Union conference in May rejected a motion from Durham for "a study" paving the way for reaffiliation to the Labour Party.
Left unions form political alliance
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Perhaps the most positive development at the TUC congress was the formation of a new Trade Union Co-ordinating Group, led by left-wing MP John McDonnell and bringing together the RMT, PCS, NUJ and FBU
SATs fiasco shows folly of “teaching to test”
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As the new term begins, teachers will be discovering the full extent of the chaos and incompetence which plagued this year’s SATs tests. They face the arduous task of reviewing returned scripts and considering whether to spend precious time and money on the appeals process.
Anti-BNP conference called for 19 January
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The last few years have seen the British National Party make creeping electoral gains in local government. The foothold they now enjoy in borough, town and parish councils is directly related to two factors: their turn away from confrontational street politics to agitation around community concerns and the inability of existing anti-fascist campaign groups (Searchlight and the SWP-dominated Unite Against Fascism) to counter this new strategy.