Report - Fire Brigades Union
Report - Fire Brigades Union
Report - Fire Brigades Union
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SECTION G — INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION<br />
Region 4<br />
Region 5<br />
Region 6<br />
Region 7<br />
Region 8<br />
Region 9<br />
Region 10<br />
Region 11<br />
Region 12<br />
Region 13<br />
NWC<br />
NLGBT<br />
NRC<br />
B&EMM<br />
ONC<br />
CSNC<br />
Graham Wilkinson<br />
Neil Thompson (now vacant)<br />
Tom Murray<br />
Brian Moss<br />
Chris Howells<br />
Brian Hooper<br />
Joe MacVeigh<br />
Mark Simmons<br />
Allison Burrows<br />
Phil Jordan<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Pat Carberry<br />
Harry Cotter<br />
Samantha Samuels<br />
Pete Moss<br />
Sue Offland<br />
There were no appeals to the final appeals committee in 2010.<br />
G10 <strong>Fire</strong>fighter magazine and<br />
communications<br />
<strong>Fire</strong>fighter magazine is distributed to 55,000 addresses and is<br />
the most widely read fire and rescue service publication. It is<br />
direct mailed to members and out of trade members at home,<br />
with copies also going to all branches. The magazine is also<br />
sent to all MPs and to key opinion formers and policy makers<br />
within the fire and rescue service.<br />
During 2010 the union published nine issues of <strong>Fire</strong>fighter, as<br />
in the previous year. It featured articles on the Cumbria floods,<br />
the Marlie Farm and Southampton firefighter fatalities,<br />
FiReControl, fire and rescue service cuts, response times, the<br />
Blitz, the Comprehensive Spending Review and the union’s<br />
lobby in November 2010. Other issues featured were<br />
pensions, education, pay, Colombia and the general election.<br />
Proud of in advance of the Comprehensive Spending Review.<br />
It also assisted with the publication of <strong>Fire</strong>fighters and the Blitz,<br />
written by Francis Beckett for the FBU, and which had wide<br />
media coverage on the 70th anniversary of those events.<br />
In addition, we also produced one A5 bulletin on the general<br />
election and four A5 bulletins for the national lobby. Other<br />
publications included an A4 four-page Response bulletin for<br />
control members, an A4 four-page bulletin Pay more, work<br />
longer, get less on pensions, as well as two A5 Vote yes strike<br />
bulletins and public leaflet to assist London members with<br />
their dispute.<br />
This year the executive council instructed the department to<br />
revamp the FBU website, which had become dated. Work<br />
began in October 2010, with a new site in operation from<br />
January 2011. This work is ongoing, but should enable the<br />
union to integrate its communications and make better use of<br />
new media such as social networking.<br />
<strong>Fire</strong>fighter and other publications are available on the national<br />
website which contains key information about the union,<br />
campaigns and publications. All officials have access to all<br />
Labour Research Department publications online to assist with<br />
campaigning and support for local negotiating initiatives. LRD<br />
publications and the FBU pay and conditions database – also<br />
available to officials – are both fully searchable.<br />
G11 National LGBT committee<br />
report 2010<br />
National representatives:<br />
Executive council member<br />
Chair<br />
Secretary<br />
Stewart Brown<br />
Yannick Dubois<br />
Pat Carberry<br />
The magazine won “trade union magazine of the year” at the<br />
TUC Communications Awards in the previous year, and it<br />
continued with broadly the same format and columns as<br />
before, such as the Day Off feature and the impertinent<br />
Station Cat. However, from October 2010 it was refreshed to<br />
incorporate new fonts and styles, in line with publishing<br />
industry best practice.<br />
The communications and research department also published<br />
three issues of the women members’ magazine, Siren; two<br />
issues of the new officers’ magazine, The Officer Issue; one<br />
issue of the black and ethnic minority members’ magazine,<br />
Advisor; and one issue of the LGBT members’ magazine,<br />
Flagship. These were also refreshed as part of the <strong>Fire</strong>fighter<br />
redesign.<br />
Regional representatives:<br />
Region 1<br />
Stephen Mitchell<br />
Region 2<br />
Vacant<br />
Region 3<br />
John Arnold<br />
Region 4<br />
Vacant<br />
Region 5<br />
Vacant<br />
Region 6<br />
Vacant<br />
Region 7<br />
Vacant<br />
Region 8<br />
Lloyd Ketcher<br />
Region 9<br />
Kevin Gutherson<br />
Region 10<br />
Norman Perry (to October)<br />
Lucy Masoud (post October)<br />
Region 11<br />
Vacant<br />
Region 12<br />
Alli Burrows<br />
Region 13<br />
Vacant<br />
The department continued to produce authoritative reports<br />
with College Hill Press. It published a detailed report on<br />
Climate Change, a response to the Audit Commission, the<br />
response campaign report It’s About Time, and A Service to be<br />
The LGBT committee met throughout 2010 on the<br />
following dates:<br />
22 February<br />
Full business meeting<br />
Head office<br />
114 FBU Annual <strong>Report</strong> 2011