London #MayDay March
#internationalworkersday2024

🔥Colin Brown in response to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service consultation launch - Shaping our Future Service - “We have red lines here…we will not have negotiations or conversations that will lessen the terms and conditions of our members” 🔥Fire Brigades Union FBU Scotland - North Area FBU East Scotland

NEW: FBU members vote YES to retain political fund

✅91% YES vote in decisive result

🗳️Anti-union laws dictate that unions must hold a ballot every 10 years to continue political campaigning

💪We will keep taking the fight for the future of our service to all politicians

Last Thursday, we launched our re-print of the famous The Workers’ Committee by JT Murphy.

🎥Watch how we got on 👇

Buy your copy from Manifesto Press Co-operative here: bit.ly/workerscommitt…

#StrikeMap #Reps #Unions #Workers #Strikes #StrikeWave #UnionReps #UnionStewards

I have an older copy of this historic pamphlet. Good to see it re-issued.

#MayDay greetings to all ⁦Fire Brigades Union⁩ members and to workers across the world.

Defend workers’ rights. Scrap all the anti-union laws.
Organise and build workers’ power.

#InternationalWorkersDay

This week i'm chairing Fire Brigades Union Safety Reps hard at work on day 1 of the serious accident investigation course, training to defend members' safety , at the fantastic trade union venue Quorn Grange Hotel

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FBU political fund ballot result.

Fire Brigades Union members have voted YES by 91% to maintain our political fund.

Well done everyone.
Thanks to all officials for delivering this campaign.

If you haven’t watched #Dopesick give it a watch. Now on BBC iPlayer
Great drama exposing the creation and marketing of #Oxycontin
It will make you rage.

Big business makes people ill, then sells them dangerous addictive drugs.

The profit system.

Fire Brigades Union North East Regional Chair Karl Wager speaking at the Workers Memorial Day Service in Hartlepool.

Remember the dead fight for the living.

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#BuildingSafetyCrisis

❗'Since the Grenfell Fire of 2017 more than 15,000 residents have been forced to leave homes due to fire or fire safety defects. And evacuations are on the rise'

❌ @MichaelGove Lee Rowley when will this nightmare end❓

#BuildingSafetyCrisis

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Safety is at the heart of what we do as a union.

Delivering an effective, professional fire service requires safe procedures, training and resources - including safe crewing levels.

On #WorkersMemorislDay and for the future we remember the dead - and fight for the living.

On #WorksMemorialDay we must remember that H&S in the workplace is something workers have fought and died for. In the fire service these protections include minimum crewing levels on fire engines. Riding 3 for any reason is unacceptable. Lee Ben Ian Hibbert

A safe workplace is a right, not a privilege. This #WMD2024 we remember lost lives at work, and call for stronger policies to protect working people. Speaking at our #AndStillWeRise festival, Matt Wrack highlights the link between workers' rights and the climate crisis. 1/5

If only the Tories were as outraged by 500 unnecessary deaths a week in A&E as they are by the National Trust selling vegan scones

Addressed two TUC events this morning. Now off to Coventry for this event.
Our union has been proud to support Medical Aid for Palestinians for decades.

#Cease_fire_In_Gaza_Now

Today marks 11 years since the #RanaPlaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed at least 1,132 workers & injured over 2,500.

It remains one of the worst industrial incidents on record.

I pay tribute to those seeking justice & trade unionists organising in the garment industry. 🧵