With heavy hearts NZPFU members walk off the job for one hour today in a bid to get FENZ back to the bargaining table.
Firefighters, 111 fire emergency dispatchers, volunteer support officers, trainers, those working in community resilience and risk
reduction, those working in health, safety and wellbeing and other roles will walk away from their jobs and take their fight for safe
systems of work and fair terms and conditions of employment to the streets.
ONE HOUR STRIKE TOMORROW AT 12 NOON
NOTICE GIVEN OF A ONE HOUR STRIKE ON 31 OCTOBER
NZPFU members very reluctantly walk off the job for an hour tomorrow as FENZ continue to refuse to bargain.
Sadly as FENZ is refusing to bargain, and has not provided a new offer, tomorrow’s strike at noon will go ahead.
Yesterday afternoon (Monday) the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) set down a timetable for FENZ’s urgent application for facilitation of bargaining. The ERA member has directed parties to try and resolve the issue of facilitation in mediation to be held before 28 October 2025. The mediation is solely about FENZ’s application for facilitation and if the parties resolve the matter at mediation FENZ’s application for facilitation will be withdrawn.
Come and support our strike action – be there before 12 noon start and picket with the NZPFU members for an hour. Approximately 2,000
members are walking away from fire stations and workplaces for one hour from 12 noon on 17 October 2025.
FENZ is refusing to meet to bargain with the NZPFU or provide a new offer they say they have. We have no option but to take strike action.
The NZPFU will be seeking an independent inquiry into how firefighters and other FENZ staff were again exposed to asbestos at Auckland City Station. Our members should not be repeatedly, and avoidably, contaminated in their workplace.
FENZ management have issued instructions that firefighters wearing NZPFU t-shirts instead of FENZ t-shirts are not to undertake usual fire
safety duties including installing smoke alarms and school visits.
This is a shockingly petty call by FENZ management to try and pressure firefighters at the expense of necessary fire safety
programmes that particularly benefit children and the elderly.
Our members serve their communities to protect and preserve life, property and the environment. NZPFU representatives are based on all career fire stations. There are also 19 Union Locals in the major metropolitan and principal centres where career firefighters are employed.
