Potential strike motion amongst firefighters and different workers would influence on the Northern Eire Hearth and Rescue Service, it has been confirmed.
In an announcement on Tuesday, the Hearth Brigades Union confirmed they're getting ready to poll their members for strike motion.
The FBU stated 32,500 of its members throughout the UK will vote within the subsequent few weeks on whether or not to launch a marketing campaign of commercial motion.
The union stated the transfer follows a 2% pay supply made in June, which has not been elevated regardless of the hovering charge of inflation.
The pay supply represents a “vital real-terms pay reduce”, stated the FBU.
A spokesperson from the FBU confirmed to the Belfast Telegraph that any potential motion would additionally influence on firefighters and providers right here.
The poll is anticipated to be held in 5 weeks’ time.
The announcement was made simply hours earlier than the brand new prime minister takes workplace, and follows a wave of commercial motion this summer time by tens of hundreds of employees throughout the UK.
FBU normal secretary Matt Wrack stated: “Taking strike motion is at all times a final resort however our employers are more and more leaving us with no alternative.
“There's large anger amongst firefighters at falling pay.
“Firefighters should be paid pretty – there's completely no query on the subject of this.
“It's the accountability of fireside service employers to supply respectable pay provides and that has not occurred.
“The ball is now within the hearth service employers’ court docket. It's not too late for them to make a significantly better pay supply for consideration by our members.”
Firefighters went on strike over pensions nearly a decade in the past and there was a prolonged strike over pay nearly 20 years in the past.