The figures were released as firefighters continue to vote on whether to strike over pay after rejecting an offer of 5%.
"At the same time, some fire chiefs are also trying to persuade firefighters and control staff to step back from industrial action, to simply shut up about salaries that are several times smaller than their bosses."It's insulting and stinks of hypocrisy of some chief officers who refuse to make the case for better pay for their workers.
"Chief fire officers are not worth six times more than firefighters, it was the latter who were called key workers during the pandemic delivering vital services including moving the bodies of the deceased.The ballot result is due at the end of January. Pay negotiations are with representatives from employers - typically local authorities - but the FBU insists"a big factor in all of this is central funding".
If they went ahead with strike action, firefighters would be the latest in a long line of workers to have taken industrial action in recent months. Nurses, rail workers, civil servants and postal workers are among the tens of thousands of people to have already walked off the job in their fight for better pay.
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