Workplace Report January 2024

Bargaining news

Fire service staff to strike

Fire control staff in Merseyside were due to strike for eight days from 27 December over an imposed reduction in night-time staffing numbers and the introduction of a duty shift system that, the FBU firefighters’ union says, was never subject to negotiation.

Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: “Imposing contracts on firefighters and downgrading working conditions is a threat to public safety. Control room staff have emphatically backed industrial action”.