Dismore demands industrial relations training for senior Fire Brigade Officers
Andrew Dismore AM, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, and member of the London Fire Authority raised the need for more industrial relations training for fire service officers, during today’s Assembly plenary session with the Fire Commissioner and Chair of LFEPA, the Fire Authority.
Speaking in the session , Mr Dismore revealed that senior and middle ranking officers received a mere half a day’s training in industrial relations- and even that was not compulsory. it was provided to ‘officers with an identified training need in this area’.
Mr Dismore said:
‘I was pleased that the Commissioner recognised in my questioning of him that industrial relations in the London Fire Brigade were poor , and that there was a need for better training . The FBU gives its most junior union representatives three days’ training , with further courses available too. It is bizarre that the professional officers in charge of the brigade thought they can muddle through with an inadequate approach to this vital part of the brigade’s success- good relations with its staff and their representative bodies’.
