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Fifty angry firefighters, both Permanent and Retained, turned up for a Newcastle sub-branch meeting on Thursday evening last week to talk about shutting brigades throughout NSW.

The result of the Union’s 2009 ballot for a new State Committee of Management has been delayed until June 23rd 2009. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)

They’re Dreaming Monday’s Sydney Morning Herald reported that the NSW government was “set to win an unprecedented agreement”

Last night in Warners Bay sixty local permanent and retained firefighters became the center of attention as they marched on a NSW Government Community Cabinet meeting. They demanded the

All members, retained and permanent, are required to attend a Union rally to protest against the NSW government policy of closing retained fire stations across the state.

In the midst our Union elections the Department has once again pulled on a dirty manoeuvre to attack our wages and conditions.

In Order 2008/22 Rolled Back Again On Tuesday 19th May FBEU members pressured the NSW government to commit to employing more retained

When the Department imposed In Order 2008/22 on brigades throughout NSW, the FBEU claimed it was wrong to close fire brigades rather than recruit additional firefighters and we vowed we would fight hard to get the decision reversed. This campaign […]

All Union members throughout NSW will soon be getting ballot papers mailed directly to their homes in the Union’s election for new leadership.

1998 is looming as the year when our Union fights to put a stop to the injustice and inequity of firefighters’ superannuation. The 100’s of members who have joined since 1992 have literally no protection in the event of death […]

All FBEU members and families are invited to join your comrades and mates for the annual get together of all Unionist in NSW at the annual Mayday rally in

Further to the Union notice of 22 March regarding the expiration of the 2006 D&D Award, the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW today made a new 2009 D&D Award that will operate for the coming three years through until 21 […]