Tag Archives: Matt Wrack
Union slams Harris Foundation for threat to 45 teachers’ jobs
According to an insider at a Harris academy in south London, ‘a significant number of mainstream teachers’ have already received letters of potential redundancy, as NASUWT accuses Foundation’s £520,000 pa CEO of ‘underhand tactics’. By our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE … Continue reading
Five years after Grenfell tragedy, firefighters’ job cuts continue
On the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in which 72 people died in 2017, the Fire Brigades Union has revealed that another 221 firefighter positions have been cut. The union says that these latest job cuts come after several … Continue reading
Fire fighters air worries after IPCC’s ‘atlas of human suffering’
The country’s firefighters, the public service which is primarily tasked with responding to natural emergencies such as flooding or wildfires in heatwaves, says it is ill-prepared to cope with the kind of events which UN-backed scientists predict will occur over … Continue reading
‘Utter disgrace’: 2,000 buildings still at risk from cladding
Three years since 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower disaster, more than 2,000 high-risk residential buildings are still covered with dangerous cladding, according to a parliamentary committee. The situation has been slammed as “an utter disgrace” by the Fire … Continue reading
Fire Brigades Union slam ‘utter mess’ of coronavirus testing
Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, has slammed the government’s woefully inadequate roll-out of covid-19 testing for key-workers, describing it as “an utter mess”. Many FBU members have been drafted in as support staff for the … Continue reading
