Firefighters discuss Christmas strike

Firefighters' leaders will 会合，会う over the next few days to discuss their next move in the 行き詰まるd 支払う／賃金 論争, with いっそう少なく than a week before a 脅すd eight-day-long strike is 予定 to start.

The ストライキ is 始める，決める to last from December 16 to Christmas Eve and would 急落（する），激減（する） the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 service into a fresh festive season 危機, 軍隊ing ageing 軍の Green Goddess 乗り物s 支援する on to the streets again to 供給する 緊急 cover.

探検の／予備の 会談 started last week at the 調停 service Acas, but there are no 早期に 計画（する）s for new 交渉s between the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 旅団s Union (FBU) and 地元の 当局 雇用者s.

The (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of the FBU will start a two-day 会合 tomorrow to discuss the chances of 進歩 in the 論争 before deciding whether the strike will go ahead.

The union could decide to 一時停止する the strike if Acas is 上昇傾向 about the 会談, or 減ずる the 産業の 活動／戦闘 to 24 or 48 hours.

FBU general 長官 Andy Gilchrist 警告するd at the 週末 that if the 政府 had the "無謀な audacity" to 介入する in the 論争 again, the strike would go ahead.

一方／合間 労働 Party chairman John Reid 解任するd suggestions by 輸送（する） and General 労働者s Union leader 法案 Morris that it was becoming difficult to distinguish between his party and the 保守的なs.

Mr Reid said: "Anyone who has difficulty in finding the difference between a 労働 政府 and a 保守的な one only needs to ask themselves a few questions.

"Does anyone really believe that a 保守的な 政府 would have created one and a half million 職業s, 減ずるd 失業 to a historic low, introduced the 合法的な 権利 to be a member of a 貿易（する） union or 延長するd 十分な-time 権利s to part-time 労働者s?

"Can anyone imagine the Tories introducing a 国家の 最小限 行う, a 最小限 保証（人）d income of over £100 per week to pensioners and over £230 to working families? Or would they have given working people the 利益 of lo w mortgages? Would they have taken 350,000 young people in long--称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 失業 off the 施し物 列s?

"Is it even 考えられる that today's Tories would have made the biggest 投資 ever in education, or 二塁打d the 投資 in the health service, or 逆転するd the 削減（する）s in overseas 援助（する）, or led the world in 減ずるing 第三世界 負債?

Would they have 廃止するd 相続するd 特権 in the House of Lords or given the people of Scotland, むちの跡s and Northern Ireland their own 議会 and 議会s?

"The Tories would not have done one of these things, far いっそう少なく all of them. The truth is that the 保守的なs would have 適用するd the same old 保守的な 解答s - 削減（する）s in public services, 集まり 失業 and その上の 制限 of 適切な時期. To 暗示する さもなければ is 簡単に 誤って導くing."

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