News

By the conclusion of this week’s round of Union meetings, the two decisions which follow below had been carried overwhelmingly by the 100’s of rank and file members in attendance.

Earlier this month all members were given notice by direct mail to your home addresses of the opening of nominations for the Union’s triennial elections.

ast Friday’s Union notice to permanent members about Special General Meetings to discuss the new Awards advised that the Award and all relevant correspondence would be available in full on the Union’s website by midday on Tuesday.

A Special General Meeting of members will be held as follows: Trades Hall Auditorium Goulburn Street, City

There are clearly some sections of our membership who are not happy about the proposed trade-off of the O2BA allowance in return for the 10/14 O/T component of members’ wages being included in our total superable rates of pay for […]

The Union bans imposed from 0800 hours on Saturday 1 April 2000 are to be lifted effective immediately upon receipt of this notice. As always, no catch-up paper/administrative work is to be performed by any member with the lifting of […]

Clarification of Union Bans: Today’s Use of RF’s and Limited Acting-Up As members would be aware, this week’s Special General Meeting voted for the imposition of bans – including ‘relieving bans’ – from 0800 hours this morning.

Union Instruction to ALL Members INDUSTRIAL ACTION TO RECOMMENCE FROM 0800 HOURS SATURDAY 1/4/2000

SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING AGENDA Trades Hall Auditorium, Goulburn Street, Sydney 1000 hours and 1900 hours, Friday 31 March, 2000 Apologies State Secretary’s Report

Most retained members would be aware that our Union has been negotiating with the Department and NSW Government for a new industrial Award for all retained firefighters over the last few months. The Union lodged a new Award application back […]

Members have heard all the nonsense that senior management ram down our throats about “quality service delivery”, “stakeholders” and “moving towards a world class fire service”, etc. If they’re so committed to these objectives, why is that they keep trying […]

Negotiations have continued since the last Union notice, with considerable progress being made toward the final settlement of both the permanent and retained Awards. It’s too early to go into any detail given that we’re currently waiting on corro from […]