News

Inside this issue:

Attendance Management Policy (AMP) interviews
Union medal now on issue
2012 Membership cards and helmet stickers

Union appeals against LSV dispute orders
Urgent nursing home audit
Police to interview all members responding to Quakers Hill
Retiring soon?
SSS and SAS contributions can be salary sacrificed
The rhetoric and realities of the mining boom

Inside this issue:

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

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

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

Inside this issue:

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

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.

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:

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

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.

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.

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.