Serco Fire Fighters

[ruffles1]

Anyone know the salary for fire fighters working for Serco at Scampton or similar

[firescot10]

I left the RAF Fire Service in December 2012. A few of my friends work at Cranwell and Scampton, both run by SERCO, and the salary for a qualified firefighter is around £21K. Not a huge ammount, but there is a shift allowance and overtime to be added on, and Lincolnshire is a relatively cheap(ish) place to live.
Having said all that, theyre currently carrying out strike action after a less than impressive pay increase!!

[Golden]

That's funny; Serco IFTC are currently advertising for fire fighters and incident command personnel in the UK and apparently offering good rates - I wonder why?

"High Level contract fire fighters required - must have tactical and strategic backgrounds (Silver - Gold) Command, must have a Local Authority and Industrial backgrounds and be free to work in block weeks at a time. Excellent rates of pay"

[Dinnertime Dave]

Something must be about to happen?

[AnthonyB]

Backup for the possible strike?

[Dinnertime Dave]

Backup for the possible strike?

Tony mate it think that's called "a get"   

[AnthonyB]

Interestingly the Nairobi Airport Fire illustrated a spectre of a worst case future here with respect to the talk about budget cuts and privatisation.

G4S provide well equipped & trained fire services there - but only if the budget stretches to their fee so coverage is limited. This causes gaps in cover and amongst the resources plugging the ones at the airport were fire engines of the National Youth Service, staffed by volunteers as part of their NYS service (appears to be a form of non military National Service), the decayed remnants of the old state fire service and the military.

On the other hand Falck have successfully run public fire and ambulance services in  Denmark for decades.

But which way would the UK go?

[Midland Retty]

I dare say Anthony that in the future the Fire Service (in England and Wales at least) will be run by a private concern - I can see it coming.

The likes of G4S, Servco, and perhaps Assetco are all chomping at the bit me thinks. The Defence Fire Service is I believe undergoing mass privatisation (parts of it are already privatised), and I'm sure politicians will be keeping an eye on how well it goes... 

[firescot10]

What wasnt reported in the news was the 500+ RAF Firefighters (not DFRMO/MOD/SERCO) having their leave cancelled, some of it post Afghanistan, to provide cover where the contactors had left gaps. Remind anyone of a certain security firm last year, during a large sporting event in London???