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the start of moflos post you have there bbb was an excert from what a ff had written. Just to clarity incase you thought she was trying to say she was a ff and a mother of a ff????

I am a 32 mother of 2 boys age 10 and 18 months. My brother is a FF who is struggling to bring his son up with the 80% wages he's now on. What has my background got to do with anything pearson? I was asking BBB is he really was employed by the LFB because i found it interesting to hear him not supporting the FF. Is that ok Pearson? Out of interest Whats your background?

Bish Bash Bosh you have commented on the i support london firefighters facebook page and on your profile it says your employer is LFB? Is this true?

Regarding the private company being drafted in, the 27 AssetCo machines, complete with undertrained crews (They will not be able to deal with RTA's, Ladder Rescues, Risk assessed 'Snatch' rescues, Lock out's, Lock in's, Floodings, High risk electrical incident's, Chemical incidents, High rise incidents, Sub-Surface incidents,...... Water rescues,Person shut in Lift or anything which will go to a 6 pump fire or more!!!! Oh... And they will NOT be asked to go and fit smoke alarms, Perform Home Fire Safety Risk Assesments, Check on surrounding risks and properties in any form of survey whilst on duty OR, Continually. Personally. Develope!!!!) will be placed (In the event of strike action) at the stations they were taken from in the first place... They will however be paid MORE money to perform a FRACTION of the service!!!!

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pearson i think its a bit different for someone > who is responsible for saving a life? > > Which is like saying if an office worker crashes > on the way home because they fall asleep at the > wheel, it doesn't matter? In no way is it like saying if an office worker crashes on the way home it doesnt matter. I am saying an office worker being tired at work is a bit different to a ff being tired at work.

Pearson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fuschia Wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Now imagine you live in Kent (which many SE > > London FF do as they can't afford to live in > > London) and add on a 75-90 min commute. Those > 12 > > hour days would make for a very long day, an > > unsafe journey home, and rarely seeing their > > families... > ________________________________ > > > I can absolutely imagine this as many of my > colleagues also commute from Kent and Essex for > similar reasons. > And yes for sure it's a long day (not sure how > it's 'unsafe') and again we all rarely see our > families. > > This is a ridiculous excuse. Move out of London > if you don't like it! > For for an awful lot us this is the norm > already... Pearson i think its a bit different for someone who is responsible for saving a life? A split second mistake could mean your life or the fire fighters life. Im not sure you understand the type of physical effort it takes to actually fight a fire for 1 hour let alone 4 or 5. Thats without the traffic accidents in between. A 12 hour day for someone in an office in no way compares to a ff's 12 hour day.

All 5,557 firefighters in London are threatened with the sack if they don?t accept new contracts. Contracts which not only threaten firefighters? jobs, conditions of work and family lives, but will open the door to the destruction of the fire service as we know it. London is the biggest brigade in the country. If they get away with this here, they?ll go for the rest of the country. The current start and finish times have been in place since 1979 and the work we do today has changed dramatically. We don't just respond to fires any more. Firefighters train for and attend a much wider range of incidents such as flooding, collapsed buildings, chemical incidents etc, and work harder than ever before to prevent fires from happening in the first place. All we are asking is that our contracts are honored and we are not sacked so they can issue new ones. If your boss told you your normal 9 to 5 hours were changing to 9 to 9 with no discussion would you fight? i expect you would.