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Matt Wrack

May 2024

  • Keir Starmer and Natalie Elphicke pictured speaking to each other outside a building

    Natalie Elphicke’s anti-strike stance ‘incompatible’ with Labour, says TUC president

    Exclusive: Matt Wrack describes ex-Tory’s views as ‘disgraceful’ after she blamed deaths on striking firefighters

January 2024

  • Woman being rescued from flood in dinghy

    Public will be at risk if Labour drops £28bn green plan, warns fire union chief

    Exclusive: FBU’s Matt Wrack says investment is crucial for tackling rise in floods, wildfires and storms

October 2016

  • 'Corbyn Stays' rally, London, UK - 06 Jul 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Brayan Lopez/REX/Shutterstock (5746798h) Jon Lansman - founder of Momentum 'Corbyn Stays' rally, London, UK - 06 Jul 2016

    Momentum loses momentum as members condemn founder

    Jon Lansman criticised by fellow members of leftwing group allied to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

June 2015

  • Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, addressing a rally in London's Hyde Park last year.

    Undercover, with Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
    Trade unionists call for public inquiry to examine claims that police spied on them

    Trade unionists and blacklisted workers are calling for the public inquiry into undercover policing to look into claims they were subjected to surveillance as well

July 2014

  • Firefighters in London's Soho striking in June

    Firefighters to join public sector workers in huge one-day strike

    Union members in England and Wales to walk out with more than a million workers over pension and retirement age row

September 2013

  • Gregor Gall

    Firefighters' strike: a smart, strategic move by the union

    Gregor Gall
  • A London fire engine on call

    Firefighters to stage four-hour strike in England and Wales next week

September 2011

  • Union leader: Len McCluskey

    Inside the minds of our union bosses

    In an age of austerity and public service cuts, Britain's trade union leaders are playing a more central role than for many years. In the run-up to the TUC congress, Elizabeth Day and Euan Ferguson get to know them better

May 2006

  • Fire service changes will help save lives

    Letters: Matt Wrack (Letters, May 12) rightly praises the magnificent response of firefighters to the Buncefield oil terminal blaze. But he is wrong to conclude that the current changes in the service must be wrong.

July 2005

  • Fanning the flames

    Hélène Mulholland meets Matt Wrack, the new general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, and finds a man determined to make sure the union's voice is heard.

May 2005

  • Firefighters ready for clash over pensions

    Relations between the government and the Fire Brigades Union are set to nosedive because of antagonism between the union's newly elected general secretary, Matt Wrack, and a minister appointed yesterday to help implement a fire service modernisation programme.

  • Gilchrist ousted as fire union leader

    Andy Gilchrist has been ousted as leader of Britain's firefighters and replaced by his leftwing challenger Matt Wrack.

  • Firefighters' leader loses job to deputy

    Andy Gilchrist has been ousted as leader of the Fire Brigades Union by his deputy, Matt Wrack, the union announced today.

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