UK News 20-11-2002 who: The Retained Firefighters Union (RFU) what: Says its members have been intimidated and equipment sabotaged by strikers where: SAXILBY when: Yesterday snippet: Peter Coxon, who represents the non-striking retained firefighters, said that two members had received threatening phone calls, while breathing apparatus had been sabotaged, reports The Times. Mr Coxon says he is fairly certain the culprits are firefighters, "because if you give a (breathing apparatus) set to the general public they can look at it for a day and they don`t know how to turn it on." The Scotsman says that local authority employers yesterday called on the government to back down and pay up, arguing that local councils "could not afford even to finance the 11 per cent offer recently rejected by the FBU unless the government released more funds." [... more]

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