Pensions and early retirement are the issues at stake and the strikes will be for a total of three hours each day
Firefighters in England and Wales are to stage strikes over eight days in August in their long-running dispute over pensions, a spokesman for the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said.
The union has been holding strikes over the past year in protest against changes that it maintains will lead to firefighters working longer and having their pensions cut.
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