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Your UNISON workplace rep is the most important link between the Branch and our members. There are different types of workplace representatives – please get involved to help protect local jobs and local services.
UNISON has these types of workplace representative :
1. Steward
A UNISON steward is a representative whose role includes organising, recruiting and representing members.
- Stewards in workplaces where UNISON is recognised by the employer have rights to time off for training and to carry out their union duties.
- Stewards have a right to be involved in how their branch is run.
2. Health and Safety Representative
A health and safety representative has the right to training and to raise issues which affect the health and safety of members.
- In some cases, the safety representative and steward are the same person but they have two separate roles.
- Safety representatives have specific duties and responsibilities and also have important legal rights.
3. Workplace contacts
Workplace contacts help distribute Branch information.
- Workplace contacts do not have access to the same rights as stewards, but can and do play an important role in helping groups of members to organise effectively.
- This is an ideal role for someone who is interested in becoming a steward or safety representative, but would like to find out more about what is involved.
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Support is available for UNISON reps from your Branch and Region, locally we run training courses for our reps throughout the year.
If you are interested in becoming active within the Branch, please contact us.
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UNISON members, the ballot on our pay offer is now open. You should get an email in the next couple of days giving details of how to vote.
If you don't get an email you can vote by going to unison.tfaforms.net/52 or by phoning Unison Direct on 08000 857 857.
The ballot closes on November 7th.
Use your vote and reject the offer ❌
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Please use the following link to VOTE from 16th October 2018 until 7th November 2018 - unison.tfaforms.net/52
Fair Pay for Scottish Council Workers
Members will be able to vote on this year's pay offer from Tuesday 16th October. You should receive an email giving details of how to vote.Over the course of this summer thousands of you participated in UNISON’s ONE Team campaign to improve the 2018 pay offer and smash the pay cap in local government. And we did. So thank you to all of you for the work you did to help achieve that.
However, the revised offer that the employer’s organisation has come back with falls short of the pay claim submitted by the Joint Trades Unions in January and UNISON’s Scottish Local Government Committee is recommending that you REJECT this revised offer.
The offer the employer has put forward is for:
• A one year deal covering the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019, with the award being back dated to the 1 April 2018 application date.
• A 3% pay increase for all employees earning up to £80,000 and a flat rate of £1600 for employees earning more than £80,000.
• An uprating of the Scottish Local Government Living Wage (SLGLW) from £8.51 to £8.77 and for this to continue to be the minimum rate of pay in Scottish local government, paid on the same terms as agreed in the 2017-18 pay award.
UNISON’s Scottish Local Government Committee is recommending rejection of this offer because:
• The employer has not engaged in meaningful negotiations with the Trade Unions. Had they done so we would have had the opportunity to shape the offer to help those most in need.
• Fairness - A key element of our claim was to be treated equally with other local government workers. However, we have now found out that the Scottish Government plan to give even more money to improve teachers’ pay.
• Our argument is simple - if additional money can be found to improve teachers’ pay then it is only fair that more money should be found to improve your pay.
• The pay offer is below the current rate of inflation.
• Restoration – the offer does not address the fact that you have lost around 15% of your salary in real terms over the past decade through below inflation increases caused by austerity.
• Low Pay – the offer does not address the significant issues of low pay that exist in local government and more needs to be done for those on the lowest pay.
The only way to get the employer back round the negotiating table is for you to use your vote, reject this offer and demonstrate your willingness to take industrial action up to and including strike action in pursuit of our full pay claim.
✅ fair funding
✅ improved training for mental health workers
✅ better support for mental health & wellbeing of staff
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We grudge no public service staff a pay rise !
However to quote the Scottish Government “This significant pay increase further recognises the value & trust the Scottish Govt places in our Police service.”
Shame they did not value NHS and local Government staff by giving them the same rise !
NHS workers got below inflation 3% rise and Local Government workers are still waiting for there’s !
This is not acceptable and this is why UNISON will continue to fight for our members a fair pay rise across the board
To all those police officers and staff out there we hope they enjoy their well deserved pay rise !
Think you’ll find that this rise is police officers. Not police Staff. !! Police staff are still waiting for the ‘modernisation ‘ of their terms and conditions. We’ve only been waiting five years. Not that long eh ?
Well done to those that are to receive this pay rise xx BUT do WE ALL local council workers deserve the same pay rise xx