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Welcome to the United Firefighters Union of Australia (‘UFUA) Website.
The UFUA represents 8 Professional Firefighter union branches: Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, ACT, New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and the Aviation sector Branch.
Each branch has a very high level of union membership, with the majority of branches averaging a high proportion of the workforce as its member base.
Our members are career firefighters employed on a full-time basis, part time basis and a retained casual basis. The UFUA also represents fire service administrative and support personnel.
Today the UFUA represents more than 13,000 firefighters and support staff through continued campaigns and advocacy aimed at achieving improved working conditions for those men and women and support personnel facing dangerous and often life-threatening situations in their daily work.
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On behalf of the National Committee of Management, welcome to the United Firefighters Union of Australia (UFUA) website.
The UFUA represents 8 Professional Firefighter union branches: Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, ACT, New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and the Aviation sector Branch.
Each branch has a very high level of union membership, with the majority of branches enjoying a high proportion of the workforce as its member base.
Our members are primarily career firefighters employed on a full-time basis, part time basis and a retained casual basis. The UFUA also represents fire service administrative, communications and support personnel.
Today the UFUA represents more than 13,000 firefighters and related staff through continued campaigns and advocacy aimed at achieving improved working conditions for those men and women and support personnel facing dangerous and often life-threatening situations in their daily work.
This website aims to link our members through shared knowledge around the wide array of issues that we encounter. It is difficult to think of any area of public policy that isn’t somehow related to fire prevention, firefighting and rescue. I hope this website serves as an evolving resource in the face of the challenges our members confront daily.
If you have any suggestions about how we can improve the site, or about things we should add or links we should include, please take the time to contact the website administrator at admin@ufua.asn.au.
In unity and solidarity
Greg McConville
UFUA National Secretary
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Our Inauguration
The United Firefighters Union of Australia was officially registered on August 1, 1990, the culmination of a protracted battle which spanned more than 20 years.
The UFUA was originally registered in 1969 by the Deputy Industrial Registrar of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission.
But success was short lived due to strong opposition from country and metropolitan fire brigades from across Australia, which led to a High Court appeal against the registration.
The Chief Officers of the Country Fire Authority, the Country Fire Authority of Victoria, the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Boards of Melbourne, Brisbane, Launceston, Hobart, Adelaide and Western Australia and the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales were united in their resistance to a national union…
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UFUA BULLETIN #021
International Firefighters Day push for greater cancer protection for firefighters. With a link to today’s media release as well as a summary of new cancer
UFUA BULLETIN #020
Call for nominations for National Work Health and Safety Coordinator. Branch Secretaries have been asked by the National Executive to provided nominations to fill the
UFUA BULLETIN #019
The Tasmanian Government announced last week that it would follow the lead set by the Commonwealth and ACT in November last year, by adding 8
Tasmania Becomes the First State to Extend Cancer Protection for Professional Firefighters
The UFUA has welcomed the Tasmanian Government’s historic decision to expand cancer protection for professional firefighters. To read the media release issued in recognition of
UFUA BULLETIN #018
The election to fill the vacant positions for the Queensland Branch Committee of Management (BCOM) was completed at the end of last month, with six
UFUA BULLETIN #017
Members are advised that Regulations adding 8 further cancers to Commonwealth firefighter presumptive laws took effect on 17 December 2022. The new cancers and the
UFUA BULLETIN #016
This year’s National Committee of Management (NCOM) conference had the theme ‘Remembering our past protecting our future’. Consistent with that theme, NCOM were privileged to
UFUA BULLETIN #015
Australia is set to lead the world as the Australian Parliament prepares to add eight new cancers to presumptive legislation for firefighters, including for the
