The political fund ballot runs from 1 November till 30 November – Manchester UNISON calls on all members for a Yes vote UNISON campaigns hard to defend jobs and decent employment standards, to promote public services and equality, and to…
The headquarters bulletins like to give rose tinted examples of the ‘benefits’ to be gained under the deliberately confusing deal cooked up behind closed doors by the full-time negotiators and the LGA. Well, here’s one from real life. “I work…
Over the past week we have been out meeting members across the city about the pay proposals. At these meetings many people are saying the same thing. That the proposals are confusing. We agree. They are written that way on…
Momentum is clearly growing for a Special Local Government Conference as more branches, activists and members realise the scale of deceit taking place under the white flag “consultation” over the NJC pay non-proposals. Our Branch has been contacted by 27…
Since our Branch Executive Committee voted to reject the pay proposals we received the instruction from the National union to carry out a ballot of members on the latest pay proposals put forward by the NJC committee. As part of…
A new session of the nationally accredited Mental Health Awareness course is going to be held at St. John’s Campus, Manchester College. It will take place over 3 days between 9.30am and 4.00pm as blended learning, with the 27th November…
We congratulate our colleagues in the Police Service Group for their decision to ballot members for industrial action against a 1% pay offer. This replicates the decisions taken last year in Higher Education and this year (so far) in Health, the Food…
Previously we had been told that the UNISON print centre in Leeds were under pressure not to produce material around Branch recommendations to reject the pay proposals with ballot paper mailings to members. It now appears that there has been a…
Over the 2 years it’s worth JUST 94p PER YEAR FOR EVERY £1,000 YOU EARN. That’s before deductions! That is the only real difference between 2.2% and 2.01% over the full 2 years (0.19%) expressed on a 1 year per…
As Dave Prentis says “It’s not good …”. Dave Prentis at the TUC rally on 18th October declared: ‘Enough is enough. We shall no longer sit back and allow pay to decline.’ That’s exactly why we should reject the proposed…