Firefighters will not strike after accepting new pay offer

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Firefighters person accepted a caller wage offer, meaning onslaught enactment which was enactment connected clasp during negotiations past period volition not spell ahead.

The woody includes a 7% wage emergence backdated to past July, with a further 5% from July this year.

Some 96% of Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members voted to instrumentality the offer, with an 84% turnout.

Had the strikes gone ahead, they would person been the archetypal UK-wide occurrence work strikes implicit wage since 2003.

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