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Fire Brigades Union
Founded1918
HeadquartersKingston upon Thames
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members
Increase 33,743 (2022)[1]
Key people
  • Matt Wrack, General Secretary
  • Ben Selby, Assistant General Secretary
  • Ian Murray, President
  • Steve Wright, Vice President
Affiliations
  • Labour Party (1918–2004; 2015–present)[2][3]
  • Amnesty International
  • TUC
  • ICTU
  • STUC
  • TUCG
  • The European Federation of Public Service Unions
  • PSI
  • CSC
  • JFC
  • PSC
Websitewww.fbu.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom for wholetime firefighters (including officers up to chief fire officer / firemaster), retained firefighters and emergency control room staff.

  1. ^ "FBU: annual returns" (PDF). GOV.UK.
  2. ^ "Fire Brigades Union to re-affiliate to Labour". BBC News. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Firefighters have come back to Labour today because we finally found a leader worth backing in Jeremy Corbyn". The Independent. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.

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