The City Council’s Executive Committee and Personnel Committee met this morning to discuss the current financial situation and to agree a package for staff who wish to leave by mutual agreement on a VS or VER package. UNISON has been…
Please see the attached press release here which has been issued to the media today. A full update to members will be posted shortly so please keep checking the website.
Please see below for details of the motion debated and agreed unanimously at the special Branch Executive Committee meeting held earlier today to discuss the consequences of the recent announcement on job losses by Manchester City Council. This Branch Executive…
Members will have seen by now reports about proposals to introduce a voluntary severance scheme due to be considered for approval by the Council on 19th January 2011. UNISON has been involved in meetings with both the Leader of the…
We have recently added a new calendar feature to our website which we hope will be of use to all our visitors. This calendar will display the up-and-coming events that are planned by the branch locally as well as those…
The massive cuts to local authority budgets in Greater Manchester announced by the ConDem government are nothing less than an attack on our city, our public services and our communities. Even accepting the Government’s massaged figures, Manchester received the deepest…
On 13 November the Manchester Branch and the Manchester Community & Mental Health branch of UNISON, with the support of Thompson’s solicitors, jointly put on a showing of Oliver Stone’s new film South Of The Border. The film is a…
The Branch Executive received the m people result when it met on 19 November and also agreed a number of policy changes which will complement the m people process. Flexible Working This new document details the full range of arrangements…
It’s said that you’re never alone with a clone. Well, I could do with one! I have been an Assistant Branch Secretary for five months now, and I’m connecting with the areas I cover, but the sheer amount of work…
Pete Banks has recently taken up a new position as Trade Union secondee to m people and I am his replacement. Children’s Services is a new area of work for me and I am getting to know the different areas…