All members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting at 12.45 on Thursday 28 February at the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street (behind Central Library). This year more than ever, our members and our city face really tough challenges.…
REPORT BACK FROM BEC MEETING HELD ON 28TH NOVEMBER 2012 The BEC meeting began with a presentation from Britannia, which is now part of the Co-op Bank. Unison members qualify for preferential mortgage deals. Last year Britannia contributed £ 85,000…
UNISON MANCHESTER BRANCH BRANCH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WEDNESDAY 19TH DECEMBER 2012 ATTENDANCE PRESENT Cath Baggaley, Pete Banks, Noel Bayley, Ruth Carr, Evelyn Doyle, Vimal Gadher, David Hall, Pat McDonagh, John McHugh, Gemma Mcillwaine, Izzy McVicar, Phil Moth, Eddy Redmond, Kevin Shackell,…
UNISON MANCHESTER BRANCH BRANCH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012 ATTENDANCE PRESENT Pat McDonagh, Pete Banks, John McHugh, Marion Doherty, Katie Ayres, Carl Greatbatch, Evelyn Doyle, Julie Connolly, Rena Wood, Bnard Sudlow, Malcolm Jones, David Hall, Helen Clarke,Vimal Gadher, Patrick…
WORRIED ABOUT PAYING YOUR FUEL BILL? With rising costs and another cold winter many members are worried about how they’re going to pay this year’s winter fuel bills. Help is on hand ‘There for you’ has set up a limited…
Recent research by the TUC has found widespread ignorance about spending on welfare, the reality of unemployment, the generosity of benefits and the level of fraud. People least able to give accurate answers about benefits are the most likely to…
Advice services are in crisis A threefold change is causing a crisis to the provision of free legal advice. Legal Aid is being cut in April 2013 for many areas of social welfare law, including housing, employment, benefits, debt and…
The UNISON Fighting Fund has got the concept of paid organisers right at the top of the union’s agenda. Far from being something new, the idea of employing organisers has been around for a long time. Here we take a…
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,…
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…