FBU leaders recommend funds change
The leadership of the Fire Brigades Union is to recommend cutting donations to Labour and might redirect funding to other parties. The FBU leadership states: The Fire Brigades Union should carry out a root and branch restructuring of its political work. So its national executive will recommend to its May conference. The move came at a special meeting of the 18-strong executive in response to calls to split from the Labour Party at the union's annual conference in May. They reflect the union membership's anger at Government tactics used during the 9-month long pay dispute and particularly...