With neighbouring authorities already acting as “Pathfinders” planning to run pilot schemes, Universal Credit is already hitting our region. The scheme is currently scheduled to go live for new claimants nationally from October 2013. UNISON is firmly opposed to these…
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…
LATEST UPDATE FROM UNISON LG SERVICE GROUP ON PAY CAMPAIGN As branches know the NJC Trade Union Side has submitted the following claim for a pay increase for our members in 2013 – 2014: A substantial flat rate increase on…
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,…
In March next year Manchester’s patient transport service is set to be taken over by the bus company Arriva. Arriva won the contract even though their bid performed worse on quality than the in-house option. This is blatant privatisation of…
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…