FBU Scotland

FBU Scotland is the democratic & professional voice of firefighters, in all roles and on all duty systems.

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

📚 SCOTTISH UNION LEARNING – YOUR LEARNING, YOUR OPPORTUNITIES! 🚒 The FBU Scottish Union Learning (SUL) Project is here to provide FBU members with access to a range of free learning opportunities, helping you develop skills for work, life and the future. We’ll be bringing you a programme of courses, workshops and learning opportunities throughout the year — with subjects including languages, digital skills, wellbeing, communication, neurodiversity, women’s health and much more. 📲 Want to hear about new courses as soon as they’re available? Scan the QR code and join our SUL WhatsApp Community. 👉 Don’t worry — this is NOT another WhatsApp group! It’s one-way communication only. You won’t receive chat messages from other members and you won’t be expected to participate. The community will be used solely to share information about upcoming courses and learning opportunities — so you can see what’s available and decide what you’d like to sign up for. 🎓 Free learning. New skills. New opportunities. 📲 Scan @FbuEast @FBUScotNorth @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🌸 Understanding Menopause Workshop - delivered by “Let’s talk menopause”🌸

Join us for a full-day workshop exploring perimenopause and menopause, with practical advice, support and information to help you understand the changes and manage symptoms.

We’ll look at symptoms, coping strategies, accessing support, supporting partners and navigating menopause in the workplace.

📅 Wednesday 11th November | 9:30–16:30
📍 FBU Region 1 Office, St Enoch Square, Glasgow

💜 Open to ALL — whether you’re experiencing menopause yourself, supporting a partner, colleague or simply want to understand more.@FbuEast @FBUScotNorth @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥”Stop pretending austerity is over. It’s simply being rebranded as “reforms” with flashy new terms. The cutting of services across the country is ideological. Life is getting harder for all of us and just as it does, they take away the lifelines that help us get through the day. We deserve to thrive not just survive”👇🔥🚒 @fbunational @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBUScotNorth @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @fire_scot @JohnSwinney

[BELLA CALEDONIA @bellacaledonia]

Overdose of Austerity: Women, Race and Class |
Glasgow Votes for Cuts as Drug Deaths Rise https://t.co/kpvPlLajk6

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥Gus Sproul, Regional Chair in the Mail on Sunday article today on role expansion for firefighters.
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[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

💥Scottish Regional Committee endorse Mark Rowe in FBU Assistant General Secretary election💥👇👇👇@FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥”Quite the contrast from the suggestion of cuts”?🔥

The reality is this..since the creation of the single Scottish Fire and Rescue Service over 1200 firefighter jobs lost, response times increased, station closures, fire appliances withdrawn!

#CutsLeaveScars

@fbunational @FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @neilcgray @JohnSwinney @fire_scot @KatySClark @pauline4glasgow @PaulJSweeney @CMochan

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🔥Maggie Chapman MSP highlighting the launch of the FBU Firestorm report nearly 3 years ago which exposed not a Scottish Fire and Rescue Service with too many resources but a Service being asked to do more and more with less and less👇🔥🚒 @fbunational @FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @fire_scot @JohnSwinney

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥Ben MacPherson MSP highlighting to Scottish Parliament that whilst the immediate threat of closure of Marionville fire station has been deferred, following a strong FBU led campaign, there is now a need for the SFRS to introduce a sustainable long-term plan to address facility and structural challenges at the station👇🔥🚒 @fbunational @WestScotlandFBU @FbuEast @FBUScotNorth @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @fire_scot @JohnSwinney @BenMacpherson

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

25 years ago today 343 firefighters went to work and didn’t return home. All lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on the 11th of September 2001. Today we remember them and all the victims of the 9/11 attacks ❤️ @fbunational @WestScotlandFBU @FbuEast @FBUScotNorth @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JohnMcKFBUEast @UnityConsults @fire_scot

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥Paul Sweeney MSP tells the Scottish Parliament that the recent decisions by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Board represent some of the most profound frontline cuts to the City of Glasgow seen in decades under the guise of a Service Delivery Review👇🔥🚒@fbunational @WestScotlandFBU @FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @fire_scot @PaulJSweeney @JohnSwinney

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥Carol Mochan MSP making clear in Scottish Parliament this week that the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service needs sustained investment to ensure the Service can fully operate and importantly keep the public safe👇🔥🚒@fbunational @FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @JMcKScotRegSec @AngusSproul @CMochan @UnityConsults @fire_scot @JohnSwinney

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥Pauline McNeil MSP highlighting at the wildfire debate in Scottish Parliament that crews at the Cairngorms fire were working beyond the point of exhaustion supported by critical crewing levels in Control rooms👇🔥🚒@fbunational @FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @pauline4glasgow @JohnSwinney @fire_scot

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥Thanks to Katy Clark MSP for lodging a motion and leading the debate in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday, highlighting concerns on the proposed cuts to the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service 🔥🚒✊ @fbunational @FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @fire_scot @JohnSwinney @KatySClark

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥FBU Scottish Secretary, John McKenzie and Scottish Chair, Gus Sproul, in attendance at Scottish Parliament this afternoon for MSP Katy Clark’s debate on the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Delivery Review…Encouraging to see so many MSPs referencing cuts within their areas, which shows clearly the successful lobbying our members have been doing across Scotland..thanks to Katy Clark and all that contributed to the debate 👇🔥🚒 @fbunational @FBUScotNorth @WestScotlandFBU @FbuEast @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @KatySClark @fire_scot @JohnSwinney

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🚨 FIREFIGHTERS: DON’T WAIT FOR SYMPTOMS — GET CHECKED

Men over 40 can access FREE prostate testing through the Scottish Prostate Initiative.

The FBU Scotland is urging our male members to take advantage of this opportunity.

Why? Because prostate cancer can develop without obvious symptoms, meaning waiting until something feels wrong can mean waiting until the disease has already progressed.

🔥 Our members are exposed to carcinogens and toxic contaminants through the work we do. The DECON research has demonstrated the scale of contamination firefighters can be exposed to and the importance of effective decontamination and reducing exposure.

👉 If you’re a man aged 40 or over, get tested.

👉 Encourage your colleagues to get tested.

👉 Talk about it. Share it. Don’t wait for symptoms.

We fight for safer workplaces. We fight for proper protection. And we fight for firefighters’ health long after they leave the incident ground.

Because no firefighter should have to choose between doing their job and protecting their health.

Link - https://t.co/LJwPfi0uN3

#FBUScotland #FBU #Firefighters #FirefighterHealth #ProstateCancer #DECON #CancerAwareness #FirefighterSafety #OccupationalHealth #EarlyDetection #FirefighterCancer @fbunational @WestScotlandFBU @FbuEast @FBUScotNorth @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @UnityConsults @fire_scot

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥Fantastic few days with the next crop of FBU reps on their Intro to Branch Officials course in Glasgow this week, the first course on the FBU education pathway.
A great group of enthusiastic, engaged new reps, tutored by the legend that is Dave Smith. Inspiring stuff.
The next IBO course is running from 21 to 23 October in Perth but it’s filling up fast 🔥🚒👇@fbunational @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @FBUScotNorth @AngusSproul @JohnMcKFBUEast @UnityConsults

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

💥The Scottish Regional Committee endorse Andrew Fox-Hewitt in the FBU President election💥👇@FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec