Fire Brigades Union
Summary
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom for Wholetime Firefighters (including Officers up to Chief Fire Officer/Firemaster). It has around 48,000 members, and represents the majority of fire brigade staff in the United Kingdom.The first recorded instance of trade union organisation of Firefighters was when the Municipal Employees' Association recruited several London County Council firemen in early 1905, which by the end of the following year had grown to a branch of 500.After the entire branch had transferred to the rival National Union of Corporation Workers (NUCW), the branch grew to 1,100 of the the 1,300 London firemen and to protect the then branch secretary from potential dismissal, sub-officer E.W.
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Phone hacking: list of civil claims
Full list of the nearly 50 people who have filed claims against News International in the past three months.
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Wayne Rooney launches phone-hacking claim
England footballer and rugby star Matt Dawson join string of high-profile figures suing former News of the World publisher.
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Phone hacking: News International faces nearly 50 new claims
Civil claimants now include Sir John Major's former daughter-in-law, Lord Blencathra and former union leader Andy Gilchrist.
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Beckett: 'The scandal the nationals won't touch'
Francis Beckett, who is a spokesman for the Fire Brigades Union, has a tantalising post on his blog headlined :.
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FBU union chief claims phone may have been hacked by The Sun
Former Fire Brigades Union chief Andy Gilchrist has alleged that The Sun may have accessed his voicemail messages during the 2002/2003 industrial dispute involving his union and he has asked the Met Police to investigate. It is the second formal allegation of phone-hacking against a newspaper other than the News of the World and the first [.
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Beckett takes down post about Sun journalist
Beckett blogs: "So - yes, I understand how deeply Clodagh was upset by my remarks yesterday. Does she understand how upset and angry the members of the Fire Brigades Union were about the story she ran the same day? And how little chance they have to reply to it? They can sit in their fire stations and fume, and throw things at the television, and if they vent their anger on the streets, they will be caught by cameras, and the Sun will be able to give them another kicking.
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'Some people are more important than the Sun'
Journalist Francis Beckett, who handles media relations for the Fire Brigades Union, recounts on his blog an interesting exchange with the Whitehall editor of the Sun Clodagh Hartley.
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FBU spokesman fights tabloid fire with fire
The good thing about blogs is the way they give you many different angles on a story, not just from journalists but from those dealing with them or the people they are writing about. Francis Beckett (pictured) is currently handling media relations for the Fire Brigades Union and on his blog gives his view of an encounter with a tabloid reporter.
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