New posts in CFA operational ranks can be created only with agreement of the UFU.Ĭhanges to structure and roles in the brigade administrative and volunteer support services must be agreed by the UFU. Personnel co-ordinating fire-related triple 0 calls can only undertake courses the UFU has agreed to. Share Here's the impact of the (CFU) Unions takeover of the Voluteer Firefighters the CFAĪll up the changes of conditions equate to 405 pages with the new 2016 EBA focused around UNION Takeover by the CFUĬFA volunteers protest at Ararat Aerodrome. The Final Recommendation of Fair Work Commissioner Roe, which has been agreed to by the UFU, includes the following diversity clause as an Enterprise Agreement objective: “In implementing this Agreement the parties will act consistently with equal opportunity and anti-discrimination legislation.
The correct version of the proposed agreement including the Commission's Final Recommendation provides for more flexibility than the 2010 Agreement and the 2010 Agreement is the CFA's proposed offer to employees. The report raised potential concerns that the draft Agreement’s rostering provisions may be strict for people with family caring responsibilities. The VEOHRC advice, which was not legal advice, was also kept secret until last week. The Truth: Last year, the CFA asked the VEOHRC to investigate potential issues of discrimination in a secret, outdated CFA draft of the Enterprise Agreement. It is up to the Fair Work Commission to decide if an agreement is legal and Commissioner Roe's Final Recommendation addresses all issues.Īllegation: The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission says the Enterprise Agreement is discriminatory. The legal advice CFA is now referring to is advice based on an outdated working version of the agreement from last year, had many limitations and the advice has been kept secret from firefighters until released in the media in June 2016. In 20 the CFA proposed to roll over that 2010 agreement including the clauses they had claimed were unlawful. The Truth: The CFA said that about the 2010 enterprise agreement from 2012. The Truth: They can, they do, and they will continue to do so.Īllegation: The CFA are saying they can’t sign the Enterprise Agreement because it is unlawful. The agreement clearly allows career firefighters to report to incident controllers who are volunteers.Īllegation: Career and volunteers crews can’t share trucks. The Truth: As is the case currently, Volunteers can continue to be incident controllers as occurs at present. Share Allegation: Paid staff only to report to paid staff. “The role of volunteers in fighting bushfires and maintaining community safety and delivering high quality services to the public in remote and regional areas and in integrated stations is not altered by this Agreement.” Volunteer and career firefighters have great respect for each other and stand shoulder to shoulder to fight fires and protect their communities.įair Work Commissioner Roe pointed out several times in his Final Recommendation that the Agreement DOES NOT affect volunteer firefighters. As volunteer firefighters become better informed, they become increasingly upset at being manipulated and used as political footballs by self-interested outsiders. It is true that some volunteer firefighters have been upset by a misleading campaign of division that is being funded by the Liberal Party – and also used to raise Liberal campaign funds. The Truth: As the below points show, there is no union takeover. Share Allegation: 60,000 CFA volunteers are angry about a union takeover of the CFA.
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