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The spirit of the narks The government’s denunciation of the firefighters has echoes of a murky industrial past, writes Seumas Milne The Guardian, Thursday October 24, 2002

By picking a fight with the FBU, Blair has opened a dangerous front By George Galloway The Guardian, Tuesday October 22, 2002

For almost as long as the now well out of date Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Rural Fire Service has existed the Union has fielded a glut of calls from members deeply disturbed about the manner in which it, […]

In this notice: Permanent Recruit Entry Requirements Pre Incident Planning First Aid Accreditation MAA’s and Boundary Variations

Following on from a SMH article a few months back, it was again reported in yesterday’s Sun Herald that RFS Commissioner Phil Koperberg remains on target to be a Labor candidate in the State election to be held on 22 […]

Inside this notice: 2002 Regs Dispute New Firefighting Helmets No to new Service Numbers SRAFS D&D dispute Good Service Badges

The latest Award payrise for permanent members of 4% took effect on 9 August, and will therefore now appear in this fortnight’s pays due tomorrow.

Shut and Open Case As previously advised, the dispute over the review of the regulations was the subject of a hearing today in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission.

Today the Union formally listed the dispute over the Regulations review in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission ( IRC ). A hearing has been set down for 1300 hours tomorrow (Thursday).

As expected, the relieving bans which were introduced at 1800 hours last night have resulted in considerable additional overtime being required. However, our Inspector members have struggled (and today were unable) to locate enough off-duty members – both officers and […]

Further to the notice issued last Wednesday the FBEU has since met formally with the Department in an effort to resolve the many concerns we have, principally over the review of the Regulations, but also over the approach the Department […]

Every 5 years, the Regulations to the Fire Brigades Act 1989 (and indeed all Acts) are reviewed. The current 1997 Regulations are therefore now set be replaced on 1 September by new 2002 Regulations. So what do the Regulations do?