UNISON is leading the fight against the fight against privatisation of ambulance services in Manchester. Manchester branch members have been out in force raising awareness of the issue and gathering signatures for the petition. We speak to one of the…
In local government pay is in real spending power terms now at levels equivalent to the mid-90’s. Over 2/3rds of local government workers earn unless than £21,000 a year. Thousands of our members rely on in-work benefits and tax credits.…
On Thursday there will be elections in the Manchester area including ward by-elections, Manchester Central constituency and the Police Commissioner elections. Tens of thousands of UNISON members including hundreds from this Branch took part in the TUC ‘March for an…
There are just 2 days to go until the elections for Police and Crime Commissioners, there’s a lot at stake, and we really need your help. 15,000 police officers and thousands more police staff are being cut across the country,…
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…
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…
BRANCH TWITTER FEED NOW ACTIVE As part of the ongoing drive to improve our communications with members the Branch has recently agreed to set-up a new Twitter feed which has become active today. You can find us on Twitter under…