Solidarity, Firefighters

The Italian public service unions are organizing a series of actions to put pressure on the Italian government and the employers.

EPSU’s executive committee expressed its deep condolences for the three firefighters who lost their lives on the night of November 5 in an explosion in the province of Alessandria (Italy).

Firefighting organisations are on strike today in France, in continued demand for better working conditions and increased funding.

EPSU and PSI stand in solidarity with their British firefighters’ affiliate, FBU, in its protest against the prosecution of Spanish firefighter Miguel Roldán for rescuing, as a volunteer on a NGO rescue ship, thousands of people from drowning in the Mediterranean sea.

EPSU stands firmly with the Italian firefighters in affirming that what happened on Monday in Brembate (Italy) is unacceptable.

Firefighters are demonstrating in Madrid today (26 October) to demand a national, legal framework for fire services that would regulate employment and working conditions.

Italian firefighters are demonstrating for better pay and pensions, for more funding for the fire services and for improved staffing.

EPSU expresses its condolences to the families, friends and co-workers of the 62 people that tragically lost their lives, this weekend, in the terrible wildfire that engulfed the Portuguese city of Pedrogao Grande.

Hundred people were injured and at least 17 killed in the devastating inferno of the Grenfell Tower (West London) on Wednesday 14 June.

(8 June 2016) Natural disasters know no borders but neither does trade union solidarity. General Secretary of UK Fire Brigades Union, Matt Wrack, has written a letter to EPSU and firefighter unions expressing the solidarity of UK firefighters with their brothers and sisters across Europe.A wave of