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New Environment Agency offer means strike suspension and pay talks

02-11-2023 18:23

The four-day strike that had been due to take place from Friday 3 November involving hundreds of Environment Agency workers represented by UNISON has been suspended to allow pay talks to happen.
Staff working to protect communities from the aftermath of Storm Babet and the onslaught of Storm Ciarán were reluctantly due to walk out from 7am on Friday until 7am on Monday as part of their long-standing dispute over pay, says UNISON.
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Poole education members strike over low pay

02-11-2023 16:38

UNISON members at The Victoria Education Centre in Poole are taking strike action today, after their employer failed to deliver a pay rise for staff.
The special education school is run by disability charity Livability, but it has not made a pay offer that addresses historic low wages by comparison to other school settings across Dorset and nationally.
A membership recruitment campaign began in 2021 and saw a recognition agreement signed with the employer in March 2022.
Regional organiser Mike C

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UNISON is standing up for social workers and their profession

02-11-2023 13:30

SummaryUNISON is working to highlight the contribution of social workers
The union has made four new Standing up for Social Work films which can be found below or at the social work page.
Social workers play an important role in supporting the most vulnerable in society and make a real difference to individuals and families by helping them live their lives more successfully. This could be helping to protect vulnerable people from harm or supporting people to live independently.
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Local government unions agree to accept pay offer for 2023

02-11-2023 12:15

UNISON and the other local government unions, GMB and Unite, yesterday decided to accept the employers’ pay offer for 2023, for council and school workers.
This means an increase of £1,925 on all NJC (National Joint Council) pay points, pro rata’d for part-time and term time only staff. This will be backdated to 1 April 2023.
Following the results of its ballots in the summer, UNISON’s NJC committee made the decision not to pursue industrial action.
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Reserved (low pay) seat threshold for 2024

02-11-2023 11:14

UNISON’s principles of proportionality and fair representation mean that some seats on elected bodies are reserved for women and low-paid members, so that the make-up fairly represents the wider union. This includes the national executive council (NEC).
The definition of low-paid reflects the median gross weekly earnings for all jobs – full time or part time – and is revised each year.
The median gross weekly earnings figure for 2023 has been calculated in the Annual

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