FENZ’s Board and Senior Management are heavily criticised in the Parliamentary Report into the Management of FENZ’s fleet. It records a lack of confidence in the membership of the Board and goes as far as recommending that the Government considers whether FENZ should even have the power to procure fleet and other services without formal oversight and intervention.
In typical FENZ style, Australian consultants Tiger Spider have been engaged to take “an end-to-end view of fleet management” without first engaging with the NZPFU’s fleet representatives to ensure any review is meaningful and to be used for a proper purpose.
The NZPFU has cancelled today’s strike. We ask all Members and Locals to formally hold a minute’s silence to honour the firefighters and other responders who paid the ultimate sacrifice as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
In June 2026, the NZPFU raised serious health and safety concerns detailing critical risk areas with the City Rail Link (CRL), with FENZ and
with Auckland City Council.
The risks were serious in nature and significant in the breadth and magnitude.
The Government have changed the rules for voting which will affect this year’s general election.
In the past, voters have been able to enrol and vote on election day but now every voter has to be enrolled before midnight on the 25th
October 2026.
Earlier this month the Employment Court ruled that the parental leave payment designed to encourage NZPFU members to return to work from parental leave for at least six months must be paid regardless of the period of parental leave.
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.
