Fire Brigades Union

Fire Brigades Union

Infobox Union|
name= FBU
country= United Kingdom
affiliation= TUC
STUC EPSU PSI CSC JFC PSC Amnesty International
members= 48,000
full_name= Fire Brigades Union
native_name=


founded= 1918
current=
head=
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
merged_into=
office= Bradley House68 Coombe Road

Kingston upon Thames

London

KT2 7AE

020 8541 1765
people= Matt Wrack, General Secretary "'Mick Shaw, President

Andy Dark, Assistant General Secretary

Alan McLean, Vice-President

Dean Mills, National Officer

John McGhee, National Officer

Sean Starbuck, National Officer

Paul Woolstenholmes, National Officer


website= [http://www.fbu.org.uk www.fbu.org.uk]
footnotes=

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is the main trade union in the United Kingdom for firefighters, both full-time and retained (part-time ), as well as for emergency control staff. It was founded in London in 1918 as the Firemen's Trade Union, but soon grew to cover the entire country. During the Second World War it began to unionise auxiliaries for the first time. Today it has around 48,000 members, and represents the majority of firefighters and emergency control staff in the United Kingdom.

Led by its then General Secretary Andy Gilchrist, the union called a strike over pay and conditions in 2002 following an independent review of pay carried out by the same organisation that reviewed MP's pay. The strike did not achieve its goals and on May 5 2005 a leftwing candidate, Matt Wrack, defeated Gilchrist in the election for General Secretary, attaining 63.9% of the vote cast (12,883 votes) on a total turnout of about 40% of the membership.

The FBU disaffiliated from the Labour Party in 2004 and calls for reaffiliation have been repeatedly defeated.

General Secretaries

*1918:1922 George Gamble
*1922:1929 Jim Bradley
*1929:1939 Percy Kingdom
*1939:1964 John Horner
*1964:1980 Terence Parry
*1980:2000 Ken Cameron
*2000:2005 Andy Gilchrist
*2005:present Matt Wrack

ee also

*UK Firefighter dispute 2002/2003

External links

* [http://www.fbu.org.uk FBU homepage]
* [http://firefightingnews.com/united-kingdom.cfm UK Fire News]

* [http://firefightingnews.com/united-kingdom.cfm UK Fire News]


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