90.85% of Firefighters and FRV corporate & technical staff voted NO CONFIDENCE in FRV Commissioner GAVIN FREEMAN, Deputy Secretary TONY MATTHEWS, and Acting Executive Director TOM McPHERSON.
Why? Because, backed by Minister VICKI WARD and the ALLAN Government, they are once again trying to strip away firefighters’ hard-won conditions — starting with income protection. But who knows what’s next?
We’ve been here before. In 2012, MFB management ripped away income protection and it took firefighters six years of collective action to win it back — stronger than before.
History shows us one thing: when management attacks, union members stand together and prevail.
Firefighters will not be silenced. Firefighters will not go backwards.
