News

4% Increase In Wages

June 19, 2009

All Permanent and Retained members wages will now increase by 4% along with most but not all allowances. These increase will be delivered to members pay packets despite claims from the Government that public sector Unions had been negotiating a […]

Austerity Budget

June 16, 2009

This afternoon the NSW government released its budget for the 2009/10 financial year, a budget that has been framed around a global collapse in stock markets and a massive reduction in income for our employer. The budget has projected a […]

Members Win Improvements

June 12, 2009

Due to concerns raised by FBEU members, when a retained brigade is taken offline, all adjoining brigades will be notified by Communications Centers as and when this occurs.

Newcastle Members Fire Up

June 9, 2009

Fifty angry firefighters, both Permanent and Retained, turned up for a Newcastle sub-branch meeting on Thursday evening last week to talk about shutting brigades throughout NSW.

Election Results Delayed

June 5, 2009

The result of the Union’s 2009 ballot for a new State Committee of Management has been delayed until June 23rd 2009. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)

Government’s Wage Freeze Plan?

June 3, 2009

They’re Dreaming Monday’s Sydney Morning Herald reported that the NSW government was “set to win an unprecedented agreement”

Firefighters March On Community Cabinet

May 29, 2009

Last night in Warners Bay sixty local permanent and retained firefighters became the center of attention as they marched on a NSW Government Community Cabinet meeting. They demanded the

Union Rally To Keep Fire Stations Open

May 27, 2009

All members, retained and permanent, are required to attend a Union rally to protest against the NSW government policy of closing retained fire stations across the state.

We Must Stay United

May 26, 2009

In the midst our Union elections the Department has once again pulled on a dirty manoeuvre to attack our wages and conditions.