A Christmas Message from Steve Swift
Earlier in the year Steve Swift stood down as Assistant Branch Secretary to take up a new role at UNISON North West. As 2012 draws to a close he looks back on his last year at the Manchester Branch. “Regrets,…
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MCC VER/VS FAQs (2012 Scheme)
As MCC employees will be aware, the Council has recently launched new time-limited Voluntary Severance and Voluntary Early Retirement schemes, which are open to staff from 6 December 2012 to 25 January 2013. In order to ensure our members remain…
MCC VS/VER Member Briefings
In the embedded table below is a timetable of meetings to discuss the Council budget situation and the future impact on jobs and services as well as the Voluntary Severance / Voluntary Early Retirement schemes. The Council has agreed up…
Council Budget Briefing
The Council Leader and Chief Executive today issued a broadcast message to all staff on the future possible changes in Council funding. UNISON believes in the need for transparent communication by the Council with all staff and especially during difficult…
A View From the Branch
On Thursday there will be elections in the Manchester area including ward by-elections, Manchester Central constituency and the Police Commissioner elections. Tens of thousands of UNISON members including hundreds from this Branch took part in the TUC ‘March for an…
Time to send a message on Police cuts
There are just 2 days to go until the elections for Police and Crime Commissioners, there’s a lot at stake, and we really need your help. 15,000 police officers and thousands more police staff are being cut across the country,…
A Game of Two Halves…
In March next year Manchester’s patient transport service is set to be taken over by the bus company Arriva. Arriva won the contract even though their bid performed worse on quality than the in-house option. This is blatant privatisation of…
Love your Libraries and know your Branch history!
The Manchester Libraries on-line catalogue is a fantastic resource, pick a book, reserve it and collect it from the library of your choice. They even send you an email to say that it’s arrived. Kind of like Amazon, except everything…
MCC Adult Services Update
PROPOSALS FOR DAY SERVICE REDESIGN The Trade Unions met recently to raise objections with Management about the Day Services Redesign. A number of issues were raised with management reflecting the concerns that members have so far expressed. In particular these…
Website Improvements
Over the next few weeks we are planning to make a number of improvements to our Branch website which we hope will make it more relevant and useful to all our members. These improvements will include at least the following…