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Sitrep No. 45/2011

November 25, 2011

Inside this issue:

Retained page pain: don’t get short-changed
Deeming update
Bathurst goes 10/14
Update on alternative duties terminations

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Sitrep No. 44/2011

November 18, 2011

Inside this issue:
Electricity SOGs training update
HR driving excess sick leave

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Sitrep 43/2011

November 11, 2011

Inside this issue:

O’Farrell attacks Police D&D – firefighters next?
S/O Level 2 promotions update
Retained summit
Anti-Union faxes and flyers on stations
Electricity SOGs Training Audit banned

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Sitrep 42/2011

November 3, 2011

Inside this issue:

Attendance Management Policy bans lifted
Department prosecutes Union over LSV bans
2011 AGM Results

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2010-2011 Financial Report

November 3, 2011

PRESENTATION OF 2010 – 2011 FINANCIAL REPORT

Please find attached for members’ information the financial report of the FBEU for the year ended 30 June 2011.

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Senior Officers Sub-branch Meeting – Friday 4 November 2011

October 31, 2011

All members of the Senior Officers Sub-Branch are advised that a Sub Branch Meeting will be held at 1200 hours on Friday 4 November 2011, as below:

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Sitrep 41/2011

October 28, 2011

Inside this issue:

LSV dispute victory – but what’s next?
Plans to close Wollongong and Katoomba Comms
Union medal approved, issue imminent
Promotion to S/O Level 2
Retained Training: Phase 1 not to be phased out
Sacking contagion crosses the border
Exercise and mental health
Mental Health event cancelled

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Code Red – Lsv Dispute Resolved, Bans Lifted From 1800 Hours

October 22, 2011

Correspondence today between the Union and the Department has resulted in a breakthrough in the current dispute over the LSV Staffing arrangement. The staffing arrangements for the LSVs are to revert to the position agreed between the parties in February 2010 as a part of the settlement of the Waratah dispute.

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Relieving Bans Remain In Place

October 21, 2011

The Department continues to pretend that it has the right to renege on its agreement on LSV staffing. Neither the Department nor the IRC hearing today has provided any answer to this critical question – with the result that the Union’s bans will continue until further notice. The Union cannot and will not accept that the Department can unilaterally walk away from agreements over safety, jobs and conditions.

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Media Release – Fire Risk In Nsw

October 21, 2011

MANAGEMENT RENEGES ON AGREEMENT, CLOSES FIRE STATIONS ACROSS THE STATE

The union representing professional fire fighters is desperately trying to hold Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) to an existing agreement providing light duties positions for injured firefighters who are unable to perform operational duties.

Fire Brigade Employees’ Union (FBEU) NSW Secretary Jim Casey said FRNSW management seemed determined to force an industrial dispute, upping the ante overnight by closing 25 fire stations across the state rather than pay fire fighters overtime to keep them open.

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Lsv Dispute Continues – Bans Remain In Place

October 20, 2011

Despite today’s bans, and a hearing before VP Walton of the IRC, FRNSW management still refuses to respect the agreement between the Union and Department for the staffing of the LSVs.

Consequently all bans remain in place. The parties are appearing before IRC Commissioner Ritchie in Newcastle at 1000 hours tomorrow, where the Department will make application for Dispute Orders against the Union.

It is the Department that has bought on this dispute, and the Department that can end it. Our demand is eminently reasonable – simply that FRNSW management remain true to their word.

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Code Red – Relieving Bans Imposed From 0800 Hours

October 20, 2011

Dept walks away from LSV agreement

When the Union settled the Waratah Fire Station dispute last year (see SITREP No. 8/2010 “Waratah dispute settled with new stations and extra jobs”), we did so with the clear intention of providing additional positions for alternate duties members. As SITREP 2010/8 reported, “The 6 LSV’s will in future be staffed by permanent members on suitable duties, thereby allowing injured members to stay on the 10/14 rather than working day shift in the Zone Office”.

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