Amazing news from North Wales. Further proof that when the @fbunational members organise and stand together, we can achieve our goals.
Solidarity from @fbumerseyside members to @FBUNorthWales members ✊️
🚨CONGRATULATIONS to Sister Ange Hickenbotham, here she is being presented with a 25 year badge and certificate by Brigade Sec Harry Brant, Ange is a CM in Fire Control on Green Watch and is a former Branch rep too! Well done Ange! ✊🏼🚨
Fire control staff are there whenever anyone calls 999 for fire. This is the reality of their vital work 👇
Now Merseyside fire control staff are going on strike to defend their life saving service.
Show them you stand with them - RT with a message of solidarity
STRIKE ACTION IN MERSEYSIDE
@hibbert_ian and myself with an update on why @fbumerseyside Fire Control members are taking 8 days of strike action starting on 27th December.
Our members in Fire Control see lives every day. Yet they have seen their working conditions attacked.
🚨 BREAKING | The FBU is calling eight consecutive days of strike action in the Merseyside control room from 27 December.
The dispute centres on an imposed reduction in night-time staffing numbers, and a duty shift system that was never subject to negotiation.
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Delighted to announce that Sister #SherriKitson has been elected as Chair of the Control Staff National Committee …. Proud of you @berrikitson …. #FrontFrontLine 🙌🏻
Today marks six years since the Grenfell Tower fire.
72 lives lost and yet 72 months on, there's still no justice.
Today, as always, we stand in solidarity with the community and echo their calls for those responsible to be held to account.
#GrenfellNeverAgain#72Months72Lives
Rayner also promised to:
✅Unlock electronic balloting
✅Simplify union recognition
✅Make it easier for workers in the gig economy to organise
✅Create new rights and protections for union reps
✅Ensure reps have sufficient facilities time
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"Labour will ask Parliament to repeal these vindictive [anti-union] laws within 100 days of entering office!
"No ifs, not buts, we will see Minimum Service Levels out as one of our first acts in Government"
Labour's Deputy Leader @AngelaRayner at FBU Conference today.
And conference heard from three guest speakers.
@nowak_paul on defeating the government's anti-worker agenda.
@IAFFPresident Ed Kelly, who brought solidarity from firefighters in the US and Canada.
And @AngelaRayner, who promised that Labour would deliver on workers' rights.