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Award Update Yesterday your FBEU Bargaining Team met with Department Representatives in our fourth bargaining meeting. This meeting was an opportunity for the Department to respond to the claims put forward by FBEU Representatives on behalf of Members. Despite correspondence […]

Award update Following on from our previous communications, the FBEU Log of Claims has now overwhelming been endorsed by members and provided to the Department on Friday, three days ahead of our meeting which was held this afternoon. The FBEU […]

Award Update The process of endorsing the Log of Claims for this round of bargaining has now been completed. The process has identified overwhelming support from members in the bargaining priorities put forward by the FBEU Bargaining Team and SCoM, […]

FIELD OPERATIONS RESTRUCTURE – FBEU SEEKING MEMBER FEEDBACK As Members may be aware, Fire and Rescue have proposed a major restructure of Field Operations. The restructure significantly impacts positions within Field Operations and in particular members of the Senior Officer […]

As previously advised, in the context of the current pandemic, we are unable to come together collectively in person to endorse the Log of Claims for this round of Award negotiations. As noted in Sitrep 06/2022, SCoM have endorsed an approach […]

Award Update Thank you to all the members who participated in our Award survey. Our Union is always stronger when Members have a say. We appreciate your experience, your time, and your input. The FBEU Award Bargaining Team has been […]

Award Throughout this pandemic, essential workers have demonstrated their capacity to show up and deliver for the community, each and every shift. COVID-19 has exposed the years of cuts made to FRNSW budget, whether related to training, crewing, promotional pathways, […]

EVEN THE HEIGHT OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC PRESENTS NO BARRIER TO FRNSW ATTACKING CONDITIONS As outlined in SitRep 04/2022, FRNSW have put forward their position for negotiations in the form of fully re-drafted Awards containing their desires to cut conditions […]

FBEU AND FRNSW MEET TO DISCUSS AWARD NEGOTIATIONS The FBEU and FRNSW met today to discuss parameters for negotiations for both the Permanent and Retained Awards. The FBEU have been requesting FRNSW’s bargaining parameters for some months now however FRNSW […]

Public Health Order Exemption On 9 January, the State Government identified firefighters and other critical workers as being exempt from clauses 7A and 8 of the Public Health Order relating to the 7 day self-isolation from household and other close contacts. Read […]

Workforce Planning Failure The state of COVID-19 infection is having a dramatic and undeniable impact on the FRNSW workforce. We’re now seeing more cases amongst our membership in one day than in the previous two years combined. I want to […]

FRNSW Dodges COVID Responsibility  The festive period has seen COVID-19 run rampant across the state, across our worksites, and many other front-line worksites. For FRNSW, the result has been mass staff shortages, attempts to reduce minimum crewing, a lack of […]