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…
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…
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…
This Campaign News contains two key items – an update on the Joint Statement made yesterday by the three LGPS unions and the LGA (see embedded document below this post) and the issue of use of LGPS funds to invest…
PAY CLAIM At the meeting of the UNISON NJC committee held on 26 September, the committee considered the results of the branch consultation over the 2013-14 NJC pay claim. This shows that whilst pay remains a difficult issue in the…
A 2 day Health & Wellbeing event has been arranged through a joint collaboration with the Trades Unions and Manchester City Council. At 9.30 am, Tuesday the 6th of November the event will be launched when the learning bus will…
ULR/Education Report Go On Manchester The recent official launch of the campaign has now culminated in HR/OD introducing a staff engagement questionnaire to determine who has no e-mail address and no access to the intranet in their workplace. The staff…
Thanks to all of you who have submitted your pictures taken during the march and demonstration held in London last weekend. We have now added a slideshow of your images below and you can move through them by using the…
The TUC rally ‘March for a Future that Works’ on 20 October was really heartening. To see such a massive number of people – tens of thousands of ordinary workers from across the country marching side by side with families…
CAMPAIGN PUBLIC MEETING IN LORD MAYORS PARLOUR IN TOWN HALL AT 7PM MONDAY 15TH OCTOBER UNISON, the UK’s largest union, is today launching a campaign to save patient transport services in Greater Manchester from being sold off to a private…