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REPORTS EXPOSE ONGOING FUNDING GAPS AND POLITICAL SPIN AS FIRE TRUCK CRISIS DEEPENS Protect firefighters Protect Victorians To Sign the Petition Click Here
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PREMIER FLEES FIREFIGHTERS • Premier Jacinta Allan proved unable to face firefighters • Firefighters protested the Premier as she spruiked the completion of the final Melbourne Metro Tunnel station • Firefighters deem metro tunnel a “death trap” To read the full release CLICK HERE
Media Release – Victorian Firefighters have delivered an Overwhelming Vote of No Confidence in Fire Rescue Victoria’s leadership!
NO CONFIDENCE IN FRV EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM 18 June 2025 – More than nine in ten Victorian career firefighters and FRV support staff have lost confidence in Fire Rescue Victoria Commissioner Gavin Freeman and key members of his leadership team. The results come from a secret ballot in which firefighters and United Firefighters Union members […]
FRV ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS CONSULTANT BILLS & EXEC NUMBERS OUT OF CONTROL – Media Release
Media Release – Melbourne Firefighters Left Stranded as Trucks Breakdown
UNION PUTS VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT ON NOTICE AS LATE FIRE SEASON AND AGING, BROKEN-DOWN FLEET PUTS LIVES AT RISK!
MEDIA RELEASETuesday, February 13, 2024 Victorian firefighters have issued an urgent appeal for an upgrade to their aging fleet of trucks and equipment, warning that lives are at risk as the state faces the worst fire conditions seen since the devasting 2019-2020 bushfires. United Firefighters Union Victorian Branch Secretary Peter Marshall last night wrote to […]
Andrew’s Government sells out Victorian firefighters over cancer protection!
MEDIA RELEASEJune 9, 2023 The Andrews Government has sold out Victoria’s professional firefighters by announcing that it would only add three cancers instead of eight cancers to presumptive legislation to protect professional firefighters, putting Victoria entirely out of step with the Federal Government. United Firefighters Union Victorian Branch Secretary Peter Marshall said that the announcement […]
UFU Media Release
Wednesday 15 January 2020 Federal Royal Commission should not be called, specialist COAG Audit Committee to instead review the Recommendations from all previous bushfire-related Inquiries The United Firefighters Union of Australia (“UFUA”) has written to the Prime Minister, calling for the establishment of a COAG Committee to audit all Recommendations made in previous federal and […]
UFU Media Release: UFU welcomes Andrews Gov’s announcement of jail time, $6.4m fines for illegal dumpers
Today’s announcement has been welcomed by Victoria’s career firefighters, as it is a further step by the Andrews Government to protect career firefighters from the illegal activities of toxic waste dumpers.
UFU Media Release – Independent Report into Victorian Fire Services Workplace Culture
18-10-04 UFU VIC MEDIA RELEASE