As you may be aware by now Manchester Labour Group had an awayday on Saturday 8th November to consider how Manchester Council can respond to expected further Tory / Lib Dem cuts in Manchester’s budget of approximately £60m in 2015/16…
The ballot deadline on the pay proposals / cuts closes on Wed morning next week. So members only have a few days to vote. Manchester UNISON and the North West Region are recommending members to REJECT the proposals. After today…
The headquarters bulletins like to give rose tinted examples of the ‘benefits’ to be gained under the deliberately confusing deal cooked up behind closed doors by the full-time negotiators and the LGA. Well, here’s one from real life. “I work…
Over the past week we have been out meeting members across the city about the pay proposals. At these meetings many people are saying the same thing. That the proposals are confusing. We agree. They are written that way on…
Momentum is clearly growing for a Special Local Government Conference as more branches, activists and members realise the scale of deceit taking place under the white flag “consultation” over the NJC pay non-proposals. Our Branch has been contacted by 27…
Since our Branch Executive Committee voted to reject the pay proposals we received the instruction from the National union to carry out a ballot of members on the latest pay proposals put forward by the NJC committee. As part of…
Over the 2 years it’s worth JUST 94p PER YEAR FOR EVERY £1,000 YOU EARN. That’s before deductions! That is the only real difference between 2.2% and 2.01% over the full 2 years (0.19%) expressed on a 1 year per…
As Dave Prentis says “It’s not good …”. Dave Prentis at the TUC rally on 18th October declared: ‘Enough is enough. We shall no longer sit back and allow pay to decline.’ That’s exactly why we should reject the proposed…
We have been asked by the National union to carry out a ballot of members on the latest pay proposals put forward by the NJC committee. As part of this process we are organising a series of city wide member…
This circular was sent to employers yesterday signed by all three Trade Unions. UNISON National Office didn’t see fit to send it to Branches! LGA circular 15 October 2014 [gview file=”http://staging.unisonmanchester.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LGA-circular-15-October-2014.pdf”]