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Fantastic Rally (1 July 2011)......
UNISON, GMB and UNITE members gathered together at lunchtime on Thursday 30 June to protest against Council plans to cut pay by up to 2%, opt out of national collective bargaining, cut sick pay and reduce annual leave, amongst a host of other proposals designed to make Council workers work harder and longer for less. Continue reading
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Protect Our Pensions......
Not only is the Tory-led Government dismantling our public services but they are also attacking public sector pension schemes as can be seen from the recommendations in the Hutton Report. Continue reading
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Pay More, Get Less and Receive Later – The Tories Plan For Our Pensions......
The Tory Government is talking about increasing pension contribution rates for public sector schemes, scrapping the Final salary nature of our schemes and replacing them with an Average Earnings Scheme and increasing the retirement age at which we can claim our pension. The attached circular Protect Our Pensions Campaign tells you more.
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Single Status Update......
We are sure that all Council staff have heard of Single Status by now, especially if you are on ex-manual grades or APT&C Grades 1 to 6. Continue reading
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Single Status Update......
Single Status for APT&C Grades 1-6 is almost completed for council posts. With schools there are still some posts to be looked at. At this moment we are arranging focus groups with Site Service Officers/Caretakers. Nursery Nurses and Admin should be receiving letters very soon. If anyone would like more info please contact Noreen Ferrari on 0208 496 4502.
(originally posted 29.6.11)
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Single Status update......
As many of you will know there has been no progress on the outstanding single status issues for months. Many staff, including Admin staff and Nursery Nurses, are still waiting for management to notify them of their evaluated grades and whether they will be entitled to any compensation. Continue reading
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CJCC......
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Council Joint Trade Unions Rally on 30 June 2011......
Our next event in our campaign to stop the pay, terms and conditions cuts proposed by the Council is being held on 30 June 12 noon-2pm at Waltham Forest Town Hall. If you can only make part of the rally do please still come. We appreciate that this is a lunchtime and it might be difficult for many of our workers but even if you can only visit the rally for 10 or 20 minutes then we would still like to see you there – please attend if you possibly can, the more the better.
Protest against cuts to terms and conditions! See flyer for full details
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Unions Make Their Case to the CJCC......
Trade unions met with Councillors on 21st June. The report presented at that meeting can be found under Hot Topics under Terms and Conditions.
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Terms and Conditions Update (22 June 2011)......
COUNCIL PAY CUTS – WE ARE NOT HAVING IT
Two well attended branch meetings (over 800 attended in total) have voted overwhelmingly to support a Joint Trade Unions Campaign in Waltham Forest to fight the Council’s proposals. A motion was agreed. The meetings agreed to Boycott the Survey, Organise lobbies and other events to highlight our case, Sign up to the Joint Unions Petition, Call for an Industrial Action Ballot and lunch a “We won’t Sign” Campaign at the appropriate time. Continue reading
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