| Description | This file contains a series of annotated typescripts of interviews with firefighters from Essex, Manchester and the West Midlands. These concern homophobia, racism and sexism in the Fire Service and also within elements of the Fire Brigades Union [FBU]. Details of working practices and examples of colleagues being humiliated and even injured are provided, as are management and FBU failings and also efforts to rectify these failings. Amongst the named interviewees are Andy Gilchrist, General Secretary of the FBU at this time.
This file also contains 3 sheets of handwritten notes of an interview with firefighters. |