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Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, sp
Labour Conference 2024 / 26 September 2024
26 September 2024
In a speech to the party conference, outgoing TUC president MATT WRACK celebrates Labour’s return to power, arguing the movement must now push for a radical shift in Britain’s power balance away from the billionaire class
Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, sp
Labour Conference 2024 / 25 September 2024
25 September 2024
MATT WRACK outlines the FBU’s motion to the Labour Party conference, urging an overhaul of safety regulations, an end to privatisation, and preparation for the extreme weather events threatening public safety
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Features / 5 September 2024
5 September 2024
Despite the damning report, cladding fires continue to threaten lives, and justice has not been done. MATT WRACK demands a radical overhaul of building safety regulations and public ownership of the inspection system
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Features / 4 July 2024
4 July 2024
While workers must organise to push Starmer beyond his timid manifesto pledges, the scrapping of anti-strike laws and restoration of public services promised means we must vote Labour, argues MATT WRACK
protest
Features / 1 May 2024
1 May 2024
We must be prepared to mobilise and build a mass movement against the Tories’ vicious anti-union law, writes Fire Brigades Union leader MATT WRACK
Matt Wrack
TUC CONGRESS 2023 / 11 September 2023
11 September 2023
We have no choice but to seek to build mass opposition and to develop a strategy of non-compliance to the draconian Minimum Service Levels Act, says MATT WRACK
Grenfell memorial
Features / 25 September 2021
25 September 2021
Under current government policy, dangerous cladding removal resources are likely to be prioritised for private housing, with social housing residents forced to wait, writes MATT WRACK
POIGNANT: A firefighter views tributes at Latymer Community
Features / 15 June 2021
15 June 2021
It was political decisions in the name of profit that lay behind the tragic 2017 fire that killed 72 people, writes Fire Brigades Union leader MATT WRACK
Firefighters
TUC CONGRESS 2020 / 14 September 2020
14 September 2020
FBU general secretary MATT WRACK argues for Motion 59 – Defend National Collective Bargaining in the Fire and Rescue Service
Matt Wrack
Features / 10 July 2020
10 July 2020
Workers paid for the 2008 crisis – we can’t let that happen again, says MATT WRACK, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union
Nurse clapping
Features / 1 May 2020
1 May 2020
MATT WRACK isn't impressed with government double standards over front-line workers