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FBU general secretary MATT WRACK argues for Motion 59 – Defend National Collective Bargaining in the Fire and Rescue Service
During the pandemic firefighters have moved the deceased to mortuaries; delivered food, medicines and PPE; driven ambulances; assembled and face-fitted masks; and more besides

FOUR years ago, the Tory-Lib Dem government passed the 2016 Trade Union Act. 

Despite important concessions won by our movement, the law brought in draconian restrictions on the rights of workers and their unions. 

It was the latest in a long line of attacks from Tory governments — attacks that, for 13 years of government, New Labour kept on the statute books. 

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