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AWARD UPDATE Alongside representatives from the Premier’s Department and Public Sector IR, the FBEU and FRNSW met yesterday to further “negotiations”. Despite ongoing without prejudice discussions, FRNSW remain unable to provide a wage offer nor put any formal proposals on […]

Respect, Protect, Value – Campaign T-Shirts Code Reds from 25 Feb remain in place, with members instructed to cease wearing FRNSW issued T-shirts/shirts while performing any work or duties for FRNSW and instead to wear any other shirt including but not exclusive to union […]

RESPECT, PROTECT, VALUE NSW PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS Our campaign actions calling on the State Government to respect, protect and value us as professional firefighters continued today. Hundreds of members showed up to campaign activities across both the Central Coast and Newcastle […]

PROUD TO BE UNION – PROUD TO BE FBEU On Wednesday, FBEU members proudly rallied in force marching on Macquarie St as part of the latest escalation in our industrial campaign, the result of yet another week of inaction from […]

INDUSTRIAL CAMPAIGN – Update FBEU members in Wollongong showed up in force today, descending on the office of Minister Paul Scully in a further escalation of our industrial campaign.  In an article from the Daily Telegraph last week, the Premier acknowledged the […]

INDUSTRIAL CAMPAIGN – Call to action Tuesday & Wednesday Following on from last Monday’s campaign actions, and the continued disrespect being shown to FBEU members by the Minns Government, the State Committee has met to deliberate on further escalating our […]

INDUSTRIAL CAMPAIGN SAVE THE DATE With the IR Minister yesterday confirming in budget estimates that there is still no approval on bargaining parameters for our expired Awards, we are asking off-duty members who are available to Save the Date for […]

2024 Award Update  While we wait for bargaining parameters from the Government, the FBEU continues to meet in good faith with FRNSW in an attempt to progress negotiations as far and as fast as we can. Discussions are occurring on […]

Firefighters down tools to demand Government and FRNSW come to the table with a bargaining offer In coordinated action, eight pumps from across the metro came offline yesterday and descended on the NSW Parliament. Joined by the FBEU State Committee, […]

CODE RED – Award Expiry Industrial Campaign As per Friday’s Sitrep, our Awards officially expire today, however, the Government has still failed to provide FRNSW with bargaining parameters, leaving negotiations at a stand-still. As other avenues have failed to get […]

Bargaining Dispute Imminent As detailed in Sitrep 6, last week the FBEU wrote to Premier Minns requesting his urgent intervention in order to avoid an escalation of an industrial dispute pertaining to our Awards.  A response to the letter from Industrial […]

2024 FBEU State Committee of Management Election February 23, 2024 The NSW Electoral Commission is conducting this year’s election of the FBEU State Committee of Management. Attached to this Sitrep is an Election Notice from the NSW Electoral Commission outlining […]