Breathing apparatus keeps firefighters alive when fighting fires. Dangerous changes to how it's used at incidents will put firefighters at risk. We've put together a short explainer on what's at stake and how you can help us stop it 👇

🚨🚨 All East Midlands FBU members Come along, show your support to FBU Northamptonshire who have endured appalling mistake after mistake by the NorthantsOPFCC Stephen Mold. Time he goes. #StopTheRotRemoveTheMold

Fire safety is a serious matter and this situation calls for a grown-up approach. As firefighters it is our duty to sound the alarm about the Bibby Stockholm. We await a response from the Home Secretary in regard to our serious fire safety concerns. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

"Oliver Dowden, the deputy PM, who made that smear, is not fit to lace the boots of firefighters when he's playing that guttter politics" Kevin Maguire during a discussion on the govt smearing the Fire Brigades Union because it warned about the accommodation on the Bibby Stockholm #GMB

🚨BREAKING | The Health and Safety Executive has conceded its approach to fire service Breathing Apparatus was inadequate, and has agreed to investigate the new (dangerous) policy. This only happened because we fought for it. Union advice to members remains the same. [1/2]

Your kid's school is literally collapsing and the Tories want you to thank them for it.

Today we unvelied a red plaque in honour of firefighters Alan Bannon and James Shears, who died in the line of duty at the  Shirley Towers fire in 2010. In 2012, an inquest into the incident established the need for improved safety measures to protect firefighters. [1/2]

⁦Steve Wright⁩ speaking at TUC in Liverpool - explaining why we oppose pay review bodies. #tuc

.Steve Wright explains why the Fire Brigades Union oppose pay review bodies. Well said. #TUC23

Energy companies cash in while household bills soar. Water companies profit while pumping sewage into our rivers. People have had enough. That's why public ownership is so popular. Workers want utilities and services run for people, not profit. @mattwrack on BBC Politics Live👇

How can it be right that a firefighter in Cornwall receives £15,000 less maternity leave pay than her equal in Derbyshire? We're fighting for 52 weeks full maternity pay to end the postcode lottery firefighters face in the UK👇 fbu.org.uk/magazine/augus…

Don't just tweet, take to the streets Let's make this march even bigger and louder Our Palestinian brothers and sisters need us. 🇵🇸✊

NATIONAL RALLY & LOBBY OF PARLIMENT NOVEMBER 1st 2023 12PM WESTMINSTER CENTRAL HALL Join us & make your voice heard 📣 Contact your local FBU rep for more info and travel arrangements Fire Brigades Union HIOW FBU Oxfordshire FBU FBU Bucks FBU Berkshire

Thank you for the massive number of calls & messages earlier re sitting in for the marvellous James O'Brien on LBC Overwhelmed 🙏🏼 Thank you ❤️

My statement on the news that I have been placed under “precautionary suspension” by the Labour Party👇

🚨 VICTORY RMT welcomes resounding victory against ticket office closures RMT today welcomed the government’s complete withdrawal of its ticket office closure plans in light of passenger watchdog objections as a complete victory.🧵 #SaveTicketOffices

= Equality Matters = Discrimination, harassment and bullying have no place in ther fire and rescue service. As the only democratic and representative body for firefighters and control room staff, we will take a leading role in transforming our service. [1/2]

Every firefighter will know a colleague who is or has battled cancer, mine was my Dad and that drives me to make our profession safer and better funded to protect the future generations of firefighters, including my son benwright See the video 👇

I don't suppose this opinion will please any candidate in the election. Head to head hustings are vehicles for a fight in a sack and not much more. They are a matter of spectacle and little else. I have also never been convinced about candidates attending branch, brigade,