This month’s SGM concluded at Sydney’s Trades Hall today after a record-breaking series of almost 80 separate meetings around the state. Read more…

Permanent members stationed within the Blue Mountains Fire District are reminded of the provisions of subclause 12.4 of the Award:

12.4 Except in the case of Inspectors and for relief duties performed outside the GSA, Newcastle, Gosford, Wyong and Wollongong Fire Districts, Relieving Employees (or other employees pursuant to 12.1.2) cannot be directed to perform relief duty outside the Fire District to which they are attached. Read more…

The Union’s Special General Meeting scheduled for 10 am on Wednesday 21st February in the Trades Hall – Goulburn Street Sydney is likely to be one of the more controversial in recent years. In one week alone the Union’s Country Sub Branch (CSB), representing permanent Union members in the country, and the Retained Sub Branch representing retained members have each received a notice calling on rank and file members to vote either for or against item 1 (Overtime, Staffing and Management of Jointly Staffed Stations) on the SGM agenda. Read more…

A hearing today before Justice Marks of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) confirmed that an in-principle agreement for a new D&D Award now exists between the Union and the Public Employment Office. The Union anticipates that the Government will confirm this agreement at its next Budget Committee meeting on Tuesday 13 February, and that the IRC’s Full Bench will make the new award shortly thereafter. Read more…

In accordance with Rule 11, a Special General Meeting of members will be held on Wednesday 21 February 2007, commencing at 1000 hours at the Tom Mann Threatre, Chalmers Street, Surry Hills. Sub-Branch meeting details will be circulated separately and in due course. Read more…

Dunheved Fire Station will be closed either with the consent of the Department or without it after the Union’s State Committee of Management (SCOM) decided to ban firefighters from working at the station in the near future. Read more…