Firefighters To Strike On New Year's Eve

Firefighters in England and Wales are planning to strike on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and January 3, 2014.

Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) say they will walk out for five hours from 7pm on December 24, for six hours from 6.30pm on December 31 and for two hours from 6.30am on January 3.

The action is being called in an escalation of their long-running dispute with the Government over pensions. The union argues that firefighters in their late 50s face being sacked or seeing their pension reduced by half because of changes in the retirement age.

FBU members in Scotland will also join the industrial action for the first time since the row flared, by joining a ban on overtime. Negotiations have been continuing in Scotland, making enough progress to avert strikes, but the union said no settlement had been made.

Firefighters have staged a number of walkouts since September

Between 7pm on December 27 and 7pm on the 29th, all firefighters in the union across England, Wales and Scotland will refuse to work voluntary overtime.

It will be the first time firefighters in the three nations will be taking industrial action in the bitter row over retirement age and pensions.

FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said: "Firefighters provide a first-class standard of service 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, and these strikes will remind Government just how reliant they are on our members' professionalism, commitment and flexibility.

"However, there should be no need for industrial action, and it's absurd that firefighters' concerns over pensions have not been addressed already.

"The Government must stop claiming they are negotiating when they have refused to talk for two months and insist on forcing through proposals that are unaffordable, unworkable and unfair.

"By simply conceding common sense and allowing firefighters a fair deal, the Government could end this industrial action today."

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