NEWS RELEASE
25 November 2002
STUC SAYS - "FIREFIGHTERS WANT TO GO TO WORK - IT SEEMS THE GOVERNMENT ONLY WANTS TO GO TO WAR"
Commenting on the Prime Minister's broadcast today concerning the firefighters' dispute, STUC General Secretary Bill Speirs said:
"Following yesterday's newspaper report that a Scottish Executive Minister had described the Fire Brigades Union as `fascist bastards', today's broadcast by the Prime Minister was unreasonable, unthinking and unhelpful.
"The firefighters want to go to work. It seems the Government only wants to go to war."
ENDS
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