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FBU Firefighter • August/September 2010 The magazine of the Fire Brigades Union > www.fbu.org.uk August/September 2010 Firefighter safety under attack Union hits back See p14 Workforce development How to do it right Firefighters See p16 and the Blitz How the war changed the serviceSee and p12 the FBU Investment not cuts FBU national rally and lobby See p7 The fights of the past and the fights of the future This issue of your families have preserved the stories, equipment was incompatible. The threat magazine includes an press articles, letters and memorabilia of bombing forced huge changes in article on the role of that bring to life the human side of these policy and legislation and the FBU was firefighters – and the historic events. By ensuring these stories at the centre of those debates. FBU – during the Blitz. can be told they have performed a great This meant that after the war a new This backs up a book service to firefighters and especially to fire service was created on a genuinely we are due to publish commemorating the FBU. modernised basis. New legislation, these events and the men and structures and standards ensured that women who sacrificed so much to Turning point our service and our profession were protect communities against such The mass bombing of UK cities during able to meet the challenges of the enormous odds. the second world war marked a turning 20th century – albeit a little late. The We are extremely grateful to those point for the fire service and for our fire service became a national service who assisted in the research for this union. Before the war the fire service delivered locally and it established a fine book – and for the film which will was hugely fragmented – firefighters reputation throughout the world. accompany it. Many of those involved from neighbouring brigades were often Today, with all the talk of are sadly no longer with us, but many not able to work together because their “modernisation”, anything that Contents 10 FBU members in the Blitz – extracts Features from a new book 10 FIREFIGHTERS AND THE BLITZ commissioned by How the second world war changed the fire service – and the FBU the union 14 CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER FBU general secretary Matt Wrack responds to the government’s attack on health and safety 16 THE INCONSISTENCY PROBLEM National officer Sean Starbuck explains how the union is tackling workforce development issues Regulars 4 NEWS Government breaks pledge on regional controls; Warwickshire cuts fight goes on; Essex obstacle; FBU groundbreaking tribunal win; FBU learning success 5 SOUNDING OFF LFB Restore the right to strike 7 NEWS FOCUS 16 Save the fire and rescue service How the FBU 8 VIEW FROM THE AERIAL LADDER PLATFORM is tackling the Vuvezelas in action – an FBU first issues around workforce 18 HEALTH development Musculoskeletal injuries to firefighters 19 LEGAL BEAGLE Redundant or dismissed? Bullied but can’t complain 20 DAY OFF Meet Lynne Aitchison from Lothian and Borders – champion extreme cyclist 22 PUZZLE PAGE Your chance to win tickets for Glastonbury 2011 23 STATION CAT The news they don’t want you to hear 24 25-YEAR BADGES COVER PHOTOGRAPH LONDON FIRE BRIGADE SEAN VATCHER 2 FireFighter August/September 2010 but little or nothing is done to ensure Cuts will undermine the safety of that equipment, training and procedures firefighters and the public. Those are the The fights of the past and the fights of the future are compatible. stark facts. This is likely to get worse as the new As I wrote last month, the government happened before 2004 is dismissed as government embarks on its agenda of talks of the “bloated public sector”, being part of the bad old days. However, “localism” alongside a period of huge but its claims are false. We have fewer those expressing these views are simply cuts. For our service this seems to mean firefighters than we did a decade ago demonstrating their own ignorance of little more than saying: “There is no and we simply cannot afford cuts. We the huge improvements which were money but it’s a local problem rather have already shown that emergency made during and after the war years. than national one – get on with it.” My response times in our service have fear is that we see a service squeezed slowed by 18 per cent and more over ten Cuts, cuts, cuts… and localism more and more by cuts and increasingly years. That is a disgrace and further cuts There are many themes in debates fragmented as local authorities try to will only make this situation worse. today which echo those of 1939-45. find their own way to solve what is really As firefighters, as trade unionists, as The abolition of national standards unsolvable. workers – we have no alternative but (for equipment, response times, Because the truth is that we cannot to fight as hard as we can to resist this appointment and promotion, training) afford cuts on the scale the government agenda. Out national lobby in November has produced an increasingly talks about – indeed we cannot afford can be an important step in that – I hope fragmented service. Firefighters are cuts at all. Cuts will mean further attacks you will get involved. expected to work together side by side, on pay, pensions, jobs and conditions. Matt Wrack JAYNE ELMSLEY/MOUNTAINBIKEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM LETTER Solidarity with Palestinian people The Gaza flotilla incident on 31 May do with us? Why is the union wasting once again highlighted the suffering its money?” Quite frankly, it has every- of the Palestinian people. Some were thing to do with us and it certainly is shocked at the way Israel acted but, not a waste of money. These people are in truth, this is a daily occurrence for suffering and any responsible human Palestinians. being would not and should not stand It took me back to my trip to for that. One thing I want to make clear, Palestine in February as part of a trade which actually surprised me – it is not union delegation. I felt it was an oppor- about religion and it runs much deeper tunity to see with my own eyes the than that. treatment of the Palestinian people. Last thing I met with the firefighters I learnt a lot on the trip. No matter in Nablus. I spent the whole afternoon what you hear, the illegal settlements, with Shams, Saher and Rabee. Those the illegal wall, the checkpoints, the that have met them know what an intimidation and the bullying these inspiration they are. I am honoured to people face every day is something that call them not just my comrades but my I struggle with to this day. friends also. For example, armed Israeli soldiers Please let’s stand up for what’s right stopped our minibus at a checkpoint, and support the Palestinian people. I checking our entire luggage, our suit- have a presentation I am happy to give cases, the minibus and us. I have never to brigade committees and the sections. had a gun pointed at me. Yet, as weird as Paul Lawler this sounds, by the end of the week I got Brigade secretary, Wiltshire kind of used to it. Nothing we experienced was even ■ Published by the Fire Brigades Union, a touch on what the Palestinian people Bradley House, 68 Coombe Road, have to go through every day. Kingston upon Thames KT2 7AE www.fbu.org.uk The ban on Israeli settlement goods and the position taken by the TUC ■ Design by Edition Periodicals, (led by the FBU) is something that we 241 Ferndale Road, as a union need to push. This issue is London SW9 8BJ www.editionperiodicals. debated time and again. From my first 20 co.uk Day off: hand experience, this will help the meet trainee Palestinian people and it is what they ■ Printed by firefighter and want. They are so appreciative that we Southernprint Ltd, extreme cyclist took this stance. Let’s not let them down. 17–21 Factory Road, Lynne Aitchison Poole, Dorset BH16 5SN People say to me: “What’s it got to August/September 2010 FireFighter 3 August/September 2010 > Latest news > Sounding off News > In brief FBU slams broken pledge on regional controls FiReCONTROL he FBU has condemned the govern- ment’s decision to renege on the pledge T made by both coalition partners to scrap the plan to create nine regional control centres. Fire minister Bob Neill announced at the fire and rescue conference in Harrogate on 29 June that the government would honour existing contracts with companies involved in the plans. So 46 control centres will be replaced by nine new centres, operating new, complicated and untried technology. FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said: “This is a massively expensive way of making Britain less safe, and a shameless abandonment of a clear pledge given before the election by both governing parties. Sharon Riley: We will “Firefighters will be very angry about fight on to see an end to reports that the government will honour the this shameful project contracts for the FiReControl project. “A manifesto pledge appears to have been In March this year, the Liberal Democrat expect costs will continue to rise and other dropped at the first opportunity.” spokeswoman Julia Goldsworthy told problems will inevitably occur with this Prime minister David Cameron was Firefighter magazine that the government flawed project. asked about the project on television by should think again over FiReControl. She “As the fire minister himself has said: FBU member Graham Donaldson on 26 said: “The Liberal Democrats are opposed ‘This project has been a catalogue of delays, April.
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