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Horner then began organising auxiliaries, winning endorsement of this at the 1940 conference of the regular section of the union and saw the union's membership increase from 3,500 in 1939 to 66,500 in 1940. [9] As a result of the London Blitz, the fire service was nationalised in 1941 by the powers of the Fire Services (Emergency Provisions) Bill.
Steve Wright (born 1982 or 1983) is a British trade union leader. In 2001, Wright followed his father in becoming a firefighter, initially with the Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service . He joined the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), and became a branch representative in 2002, during a union campaign on pay.
Charles Norman Greenfield (4 April 1907 – 17 September 1997) was an English fireman with the Manchester City Fire Brigade who precipitated a significant legal case in British trade union history, particularly regarding the Fire Brigades Union (FBU).
The union is drawing up its own set of standards for the fire and rescue sector.
In the following years, other fire brigades were created in the large French cities. Around that time appeared the current French word pompier ("firefighter"), whose literal meaning is "pumper." On March 11, 1733 the French government decided that the interventions of the fire brigades would be free of charge.
In 1913, Bradley recruited the MEA's London Fire Brigade branch to NUCW and became its branch secretary. [2] After the conclusion of a dispute with London County Council, the branch split from the NUCW and instead affiliated with George Gamble's Firemen's Trade Union. Gamble left the union in 1922, and Bradley took over as General Secretary of ...
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[1] [3] Humphries ran unsuccessfully for the position of General Secretary of the Fire Brigade's Union in 1964, losing to Terry Parry by 2,000 votes. Humphries then assumed Parry's position as President of the Fire Brigades Union, an office he held until 1977. In 1968, he served as President of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. [3] [2]