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FENZ’s Failures Impact Public Safety Every Day
Friday, 21 November 2025, 8:27 am | NZPFU
FENZ’s own promotions warn that in less than 3 minutes a house fire can take hold and devastate the home and everyone in it yet FENZ won’t address these serious systemic failures that directly impact on crews arriving on scene resourced and in ... More >>
CRITICAL DELAY: FENZ Truck Failure Strands Firefighters, Seven Minutes Late To Raging House Fire
Friday, 21 November 2025, 8:16 am | NZPFU
The crew was unable to release the brakes due to a failure in the air system of the 2008 appliance. This loaner truck was assigned to the station after their primary truck was removed by FENZ to its under-resourced training centre. More >>
NZPFU To Strike On Friday - FENZ Refuses To Move At All In Bargaining
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 1:02 pm | NZPFU
The NZPFU spent most of yesterday with the consultants re-working the costings and timeframes for wage increases and the collective agreement. More >>
PSA And Firefighters Union Take Urgent Legal Action To Stop Reckless FENZ Restructure
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 9:38 am | NZPFU
The joint application was filed with the ERA late yesterday and seeks to stop the proposed restructure announced last week which would cut 140 roles. More >>
FENZ's Application For Urgent Facilitation Adjourned
Friday, 14 November 2025, 12:13 pm | NZPFU
The NZPFU emphasised that the Parties had agreed bargaining set down for Monday and Tuesday next week, and in the interim had costings and information provided on a proposal with the first chance to discuss the implications of the proposal next week. More >>
NZPFU Cancels This Weeks Strike But Gives Notice Of Further Strike Action
Thursday, 6 November 2025, 9:21 am | NZPFU
Today the NZPFU issued a new strike notice for a full one-hour stoppage on 21 November. We have previously issued a notice of a full one-hour stoppage from 12 noon for Friday 14th November 2005. More >>
NZPFU Issues Notice Of One-Hour Strike On 14 November 2025
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 7:47 pm | NZPFU
The strike notices are necessary to keep the pressure on FENZ to come to the table with a revised offer that makes sufficient progress on the issues raised through bargaining. More >>
NZPFU And FENZ Head Back To Bargaining
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 5:59 pm | NZPFU
The NZPFU has agreed to withdraw the strike notified for 31st October but has indicated a strike notice for the 7th November will be issued. More >>
FENZ Falsely Claims ERA Accepted Need For Urgent Facilitation
Saturday, 18 October 2025, 1:55 pm | NZPFU
The Union has told FENZ if it withdraws its ERA application we can be back in bargaining as soon as Wednesday as we won’t need to use that date for mediation. More >>
2,000 NZPFU Members Hit The Streets At Midday Today Fighting For New Zealand's Fire Services
Friday, 17 October 2025, 11:08 am | NZPFU
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 ... More >>
NZPFU Members Striking As FENZ Continues To Refuse To Bargain
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 1:34 pm | NZPFU
Today the NZPFU issued notice of a 1 one-hour strike from 12 noon on Friday 31 October 2025. We hope this notice will cause FENZ to re-think their delay tactics and get back to bargaining. More >>
FENZ Fails Auckland City Fire Station Staff Again With Asbestos Exposure
Sunday, 12 October 2025, 6:14 pm | NZPFU
There needs to be a thorough investigation and FENZ’s Executive Leadership Team needs to be held to account, and the full force of penalties available under the Health and Safety at Work Act to be applied where appropriate. More >>
FENZ Put Uniforms Ahead Of Fire Safety
Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 1:31 pm | NZPFU
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. More >>
FENZ Uses Notified Strike As An Excuse To Walk Away From Bargaining – Again
Friday, 3 October 2025, 12:19 pm | NZPFU
If FENZ have a decent offer to present in facilitation they should instead present it next week in bargaining. More >>
Celebration Of New Zealand Having The First Career Women Firefighters In The Commonwealth
Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 7:07 pm | NZPFU
Today the first women career firefighters in New Zealand and the Commonwealth will be celebrated at a function hosted by the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (the NZPFU). The 40th anniversary of women career firefighters ticked over in 2021 ... More >>
Warnings By Firefighters And Rescue Crews Fall On Deaf Ears
Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 9:15 pm | NZPFU
Whilst Auckland and Northland firefighters, both career and volunteer, are facing yet another 1 in 100 year flood this year, it is apparent that climate change is here to stay. We need to ensure we adapt and remain vigilant to ensure that safety ... More >>
Ratification Romps Home With 97.7% Voting For The Agreement
Sunday, 18 December 2022, 8:16 pm | NZPFU
NZPFU members turned out in force across the country to vote to accept the proposed settlement of the 2021-2024 collective agreement as recommended by the Union’s National Committee. There was high turnout at the 26 meetings ratification meetings ... More >>
NZPFU Cancels Friday Strike
Friday, 25 November 2022, 1:56 pm | NZPFU
The NZPFU has called off Friday 25 November’s strike after receiving a revised position from FENZ late afternoon of Thursday 24 November. The omnibus of bans continues unaffected. The parties met on Tuesday but failed to finalise the negotiations as ... More >>
Monday's Strike Cancelled As NZPFU And FENZ To Meet On Monday
Friday, 25 November 2022, 9:34 am | NZPFU
Yesterday, members were advised that today’s (Friday) strike was cancelled as FENZ had provided a revised position on outstanding matters that demonstrated movement but not all matters for inclusion in the collective agreement were resolved. We also ... More >>
Joint NZPFU FENZ Statement
Friday, 11 November 2022, 9:37 am | NZPFU
The NZPFU and Fire and Emergency have held two days of negotiations this week which has included an exchange of proposals and consideration of different modelling options that incorporated a proposed funding injection by Government. A representative of ... More >>
