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SitRep 6/2024

February 16, 2024

FBEU SEEKS URGENT INTERVENTION FROM PREMIER MINNS IN AWARD NEGOTIATIONS – CAMPAIGN ACTION IMMINENT

This week, the FBEU Bans/Industrial Campaign Committee reconvened to consider and discuss our imminent plan for action to progress the stalled 2024 Award negotiations. This plan is now also being put to delegates in zoom meetings one of which occurred yesterday, the other being held this evening.

The responses received to our communication to both the Emergency Services Minister, Jihad Dib and FRNSW, as outlined in Sitrep 4, was wholly inadequate and failed to address the continued reason negotiations have not progressed, namely the lack of FRNSW’s bargaining parameters approved by the Government.

In a last-ditch attempt to move negotiations forward we have today written to Premier Minns seeking his urgent intervention to avoid an escalation of this dispute. You can find a copy of our letter here.

NSW professional firefighters deserve better, and our patience has now worn out.

With our Awards expiring in 10 days, without urgent action from the Minns Government, we will likely be launching an industrial campaign within days. This campaign will need the support and involvement of all members to send a clear message to this government that NSW professional firefighters deserve real wages growth and reform to our job. We can no longer be under resourced, underfunded, and undervalued.

Watch this space for updates in coming days.

In Unity,

Leighton Drury
State Secretary

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