All permanent members of the Union who were on duty in the GSA yesterday and who were not exempted from industrial action should now mark your timesheets to show a one and a half hour deduction for the stop work action – whether or not your brigade actually physically attended the stop work meeting.
Those members who were on duty yesterday and were exempted should instead donate the equivalent of one and a half hours’ pay to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Burns Unit through the FBEU’s credit union account –
BSB: 802-825
Account Number: 122014
Account Name: Westmead Children’s Hospital Burns Unit
The money donated into this account will then be used to make a substantial donation to the Children’s Hospital Burns Unit at the completion of the Union’s current wage campaign. The money donated will be used to maximise the benefit to the children suffering most from burns. To allow for the provision of a receipt please include your service number in the deposit details.
The Department might even follow suit and donate the pay it deducts from those members who did stop work (don’t hold your breath!).
The only exemptions given that day were:
1. Executive Officer members (ie Superintendents and above);
2. Members attached to primary rescue stations within the GSA;
3. Members crewing major aerial appliances only (that is without an onboard pump); and
4. Members attached to ‘Sydney Communications’.
All retained crews continued to respond as normal.
Simon Flynn
State Secretary
All permanent members of the Union who were on duty in the GSA yesterday and who were not exempted from industrial action should now mark your timesheets to show a one and a half hour deduction for the stop work action – whether or not your brigade actually physically attended the stop work meeting.
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Today’s stop work meeting in Sydney at ‘The Hungry Mile’ was an enormous success with industrial action by public servants across the board making the main television news stories on all four free to air channels. The action by FBEU members was the main feature of each story with attention now again focussed on the governments offer to cut wages or reduce conditions.
The Union was again in court talking about our wage claim and further meetings have now been scheduled for early next week and we are due back in court again on Thursday August 7th. Immediately prior to the stop work meeting two major fires broke out in Sydney and members in attendance at the stop work meeting gave a round of applause for those comrades tied up in fighting the fire and unable to make it into the stop work meeting.
Negotiations have now reached a very sensitive stage and the Commissioner is now actually attending hearings in the court. In addition Unions NSW has agreed to facilitate a series of additional meetings into the immediate future.
Those members who attended the meeting deserve the gratitude and support of the entire rank and file. Members who did not stop work or were not working are encouraged to donate money to the Westmead Children’s Hospital Burns Unit through the FBEU’s Fire Brigade Employees Credit Union account.
Simon Flynn
State Secretary
Today’s stop work meeting in Sydney at ‘The Hungry Mile’ was an enormous success with industrial action by public servants across the board making the main television news stories on all four free to air channels. The action by FBEU members was the main feature of each story with attention now again focussed on the governments offer to cut wages or reduce conditions.
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The Unions political lobby strategy has continued to roll out across the state with delegations of firefighters meeting with local Labor Party Members of Parliament throughout Sydney, Newcastle and the Illawarra over the last two weeks. Delegations of firefighters have now met with fifteen local MP’s seeking their support for the Unions Public Safety Campaign.
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The ‘special treatment’ now being dished out to firefighters from the state government has been made even more stark after government has resolved to offer members of the NSW Ambulance Service a 12% increase over three years this week. The 12% offer comes on top of a claim for 30% the Health Services Union is currently running through a special wage case in the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC).
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