Report - Fire Brigades Union

Contents
President-elect’s introduction 9
Section A
National Joint Council
A1 Introduction 11
A2 Report of the independent chair of the NJC/MMNB 11
A3 Pay and CPD 2010 15
A4 Protected pay 2010 17
A5 Middle Managers Negotiating Body (MMNB) 18
A6 Car allowances 18
A7 Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) 19
A8 Resolution Advisory Panel (RAP) 19
A9 Ad hoc NJC joint working party of the NJC/MMNB 20
A10 NJC annual workforce survey 2010 20
A11 Health issues 21
A12 Maternity, paternity, childcare and dependency 21
A13 Part-time workers (RDS) – terms and conditions settlement 26
A14 National occupational standards 27
Section B
Fire and rescue service policy
B1 Introduction 29
B2 FRS policy – government responsibility – England 29
B3 FRS policy – government responsibility – Northern Ireland 30
B4 FRS policy – government responsibility – Wales 30
B5 FRS policy – government responsibility – Scotland 31
B6 Arson Control Forum 32
B7 BSI 32
B8 Fire safety 32
B9 Joint CFOA/FBU Warehouse Working Group 32
B10 National Fire Sprinkler Network 32
B11 Practitioners’ Forum 32
B12 Fire and Rescue Service Statistics User Group 33
B13 Resilience Sounding Board 33
B14 Workforce development 33
B15 Federation of British Fire Organisations 34
B16 CLG Fire Futures review of the fire and rescue service in England 35
B17 FiReControl 64
Section C
TU and labour movement
C1 Introduction 81
C2 TUC 2010 81
C3 ICTU northern conference 2010 82
C4 STUC 2010 82
C5 STUC black workers’ conference 2010 83
C6 STUC women’s conference 2010 83
C7 Wales TUC conference 2010 84
C8 TUC women’s conference 2010 85
C9 TUC LGBT conference 2010 86
C10 TUC black workers’ conference 2010 87
C11 Institute of Employment Rights 88
C12 International 88
C13 FBU parliamentary group 88
C14 Affiliations 90
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