UNISON Rotherham Local Government

Pay News - New OfferThe Employers’ Side met yesterday and agreed to increase their offer to a final offer in settlement of our 2009 pay claim as follows: Pay From 1 April 2009 an incre...

2009 - 2010 Pay Award Pay negotiations with the national employers have stalled.  Originally the employers made a derisory offer of 0.5% which the trade union side rejected.  The emp...

Use your vote in the NEC elections   As a UNISON member you get a vote in the National Executive Council (NEC) elections. The NEC decides on issues and campaigns between c...

URGENT: Picket the BNP election meeting in Barnsley Stop Nick Griffin spreading the BNP's race hate and Nazi propaganda. Nick Griffin is coming to speak at a meeting in Barnsley...

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS  Shona McFarlane has circulated staff, indicating that 50% of social care workers will be working the Christmas period and that this has been fully discussed with UNIS...

1.      Advice to members on immigration matters UNISON is launching a pilot service which provides free immigration telephone advice to UNISON members who hav...

Lobby of the Council Tuesday 24 March 2009 Defend our Meals on Wheels and Laundry Services Unison members from the laundry and meals on wheels service, along with stewards and officers,&n...

NEC Elections 2009 At the branch executive on 9 February 2009 the branch committe agreed to support the following candidates:           Yo...

Pay Claim 2009 - 2010 A claim has been submmitted to  the Local Government Employers, by the joint trade union side, for at least the Retail Price Index of inflation.  This figur...

Election Result January 2009 The results of the elections to contested posts were as follows Branch Secretary Gordon Jelley    246 Carol Maleham  408 ...

Branch Officer Elections Nominations have closed for the branch officer elections.  The following posts are to be contested*: BRANCH SECRETARY - 2 Candidates (Gordon Jelley or Carol...

CALLING ALL MEMBERS – GET INVOLVED & GET ACTIVE!   This is the time of year when Rotherham UNISON selects its officers and stewards for the coming 12 months.  Nominations ...

2008 Pay Claim to Arbitration Rotherham MBC Branch confirm that the latest position on pay, is that this year pay claim is to go to binding arbitration organised through ACAS, only the pay cla...

In 1998, five Cuban men were jailed for trying to stop US-based terrorist attacks against their country - two have not seen their families since. Who are the Miami Five? The Miami Five are Gerardo H...

Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, warns Labour not to desert local government workers. At the Annual Labour Party Conference, Mr Prentis reminded Labour to "Remember who you are and what y...

On Monday the LGA, the employers organisation accepted UNISON's offer of resolving this years pay round through binding arbitration. It is very unclear whether this will lead to any improv...

UNISON MEMBERS   PAY DISPUTE   3 September 2008   Dear Member   Meetings have been set up in order to discuss the possibility of ...

Alan Swann, Assistant Chief Executive (Human Resources) has written to all employees who are appealing their Job Evaluation pay band, to the formal stage 2 appeal.  You should ha...

PAY NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE The union’s national negotiators met yesterday and agreed a ‘temporary suspension’ of further strike action.  The suspension is to provide a windo...

WELL DONE FOR DELIVERING SOLID ACTION!UNISON members in Rotherham joined more than 500,000 members across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in sending a clear message to the employers that they are ...

The magnificent support of Unison members accross Rotherham and the solidarity from other trade unionists and non-union members had a massive impact. In our borough more than seventy scho...

All members of the branch are invited to attend a rally on Thursday 17th July in  All Saints Square, Rotherham from 10 AM. Along with members of Unite who are striking with us in Local Gov...

PAY STRIKE  All out on 16 & 17 July On 16 and 17 July some of the UK's lowest paid workers will go on strike. 600,000 local government workers - care assistants, refuse collectors...

Unison members have voted to reject the offer of 2.45% in the recent consultative ballot. ...

Three representatives of the branch attended a lobby of the House of Commons in defence of sacked UNISON activist Karen Reissman, a mental heath nurse and chair of South Manchester Mental Health Tru...

The UNISON NJC Committee met on Wednesday 28 November to discuss the contents of the NJC pay claim for 2008/09.A detailed discussion was held about options for the claim.  It is clear that a se...

Local government dispute ends with pay warning (30/10/07) Local government workers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland have slammed this year’s below-inflation annual pay award, but s...

It has now been confirmed that staff will work on a voluntary basis only, during the Christmas period. ...

Appeals process against errors in the grading of posts beginning this week. The council has begun writing to members who have rejected their pay banding in the first and second stage of Job Evaluat...

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF MEMBERS HAVE NOT RECEIVED A BALLOT PAPER BY 15TH OCTOBER THEY SHOULD CONTACT UNISON DIRECT ON 0845 355 0845.  THIS DATE HAS BEEN REVISED FROM 11 OCTOBER IN LIGHT OF THE...

  A MEETING IS TO TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY 9TH OCTOBER TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION WITH REGARDS TO THE 2007 PAY OFFER AND PROPOSED STRIKE ACTION.  PLEASE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ATTEND...

FAIR PLAY - FAIR PAY SAY NO TO THE PAY OFFER - VOTE 'YES' FOR STRIKE ACTION The Employers' Final Offer It's six months since UNISON lodged the 2007-8 NJC pay claim ...

On 4 September 2007 representatives of UNISON's local government members yesterday voted to reject the employers' revised offer of 2.475% and a new minimum rate on scale point 4 of £6 ...

NJC PAYJust to let you that at the NJC Committee on Tuesday, it was agreed to take informal soundings from branches on the employers’ informal suggestion that they might be prepared to offer 2...

Local government white paper Main homepage The government is proposing major changes to local s...

Victory for Surrey social workers (23/05/07) A group of UNISON members is celebrating success after winning a dispute over workloads and unpaid overtime. Overstretched social workers at Surrey C...

Supporting schools staff (23/05/07) School support staff can look forward to a fairer deal in future. Schools minister Jim Knight today heralded the development of a new national negotiating bod...

2007 NJC England, Wales and Northern Ireland Pay Claim - Update on pay negotiations   Discussions on this year's pay claim are continuing following the NJC unions' rejection ...

The NJC met on 20 March 2007 and received an offer of 2% on basic pay.  The employers are to send us a written response to all the items in our claim next week.  The 'offer' amount...