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Inside this notice: Award negotiations begin Senior firefighters eligbility to sit SOPP Salary Sacrifice – Stargarden claims another victim Breakfast allowance dispute Inspectors acting up to Superintendent Eligibility for Rescue Allowance Rank Insignia – Higher Duties and the Crown Policy […]

It has come to the attention of the Union that the Department are cynically manipulating the Award provisions relating to the transport of members gear back to their base station when they do a recall to Picton.

Certain allowances in both the Permanent and Retained Awards increased on 1 July.

The final results of the members’ vote upon the three motions on notice at this week’s Special General Meeting were as follows:

A Special General Meeting of members will be held pursuant to a Rule 11(2) as follows: SYDNEY SGM – Trades Hall Auditorium, Goulburn Street, 1000 hours Wednesday 30 July. NEWCASTLE – Cardiff Workers Club (Club Nova), 1000 hours Monday 28 […]

FBEU submission to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into the Transportation and Storage of Nuclear Waste

Inside this notice: SGM to be held re SOPP Carrying over marks from previous pre entry tests Merit selection and eligibility lists Discriminatory Dept. forced to pay up New Commissioner

Inside this notice: SOPP/IPP Entitlements win Union secures backdating of LF promotions New salary packaging arrangements in place SASS ABC contributions SGM to be held 30 July Industrial WMD

26 June options deadline closing fast

Union bans to be lifted upon receipt of this notice Proceedings in the IRC today resulted in an agreement (ie, not an instruction or order) that the Union would lift its bans as soon as possible, and that the numerous […]

Relations between the Union and the Department have again hit rock-bottom, this time due to management’s head in the sand approach to an ever-growing number of disputes. The Union could list these disputes and trounce them once again in the […]

United Firefighters’ Union of Australia New South Wales Branch DECLARATION OF RESULTS FOR CONTESTED OFFICES Results of the election for the following offices conducted in accordance with Section 214 of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 and the rules of the […]