We have requisitioned a Special Local Government Service Group Conference on pay. You can read why we have taken this step and if you agree then we need your help. For the conference to take place it requires branches representing…
The Leader of the Labour Employer Group wrote to the UNISON General Secretary on 9th October (the day the strike due on the 14th October was cancelled) saying Councils would only be consulted on the ‘offer’ of an increase of…
Manchester Branch have taken the unusual step of requisitioning a special Local Government Service Group Conference. It is not something we have done lightly but we think there are major issues to be addressed within Local Government and the best…
We may never know the true reasons why the majority on the NJC Committee voted to suspend strike action. Or the real reasons why they believe these “new, new” proposals are different in any meaningful way to the “new” proposals…
Two weeks ago the NJC Committee rightly rejected the “new” proposals on three main grounds: They were not a formal offer and under our constitutional procedures we cannot put them out to our members for consultation. For 2014/15 the total…
In a few words, not a lot. With no clear National official information, members and activists are naturally wondering what the radically “new, new” proposals are from the LGA that ‘caused’ the NJC Trade Unions to call off the strike…
Access To Advice and Justice Alliance North invite you to a public meeting about the future of free, publicly funded legal advice. Come along to the meeting It’s taking place during the Labour Party Conference in Manchester . We want…
Eric Pickles, the Tory Local Government Minister responsible for the massive cuts to council budgets, is addressing the national CIH Housing Conference on Thursday 26th June. He will be speaking in defence of the shameful and hated bedroom tax. The…
UNISON members across the country have spoken. We have read all the facts and figures about our wages. How the pay freeze was a pay cut. How 1% is a pay cut. More importantly we have lived it. All of…
The national employers’ below-inflation pay offer represents another effective pay cut for local government workers. It does nothing to even begin to restore the 20% loss in pay since 2010. It means yet another year with a further pay…