UNISON Branch News

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This area of our site features the latest news and information about issues that impact across the Branch or across Council Departments. It will be regularly updated by the Branch Secretary Ray Oldroyd and our Communications Officer Malcolm Clements.

If you are looking for news relating to specific Council Departments, please check out our Departmental Convenors news blogs by following the ‘UNISON at Work’ BMBC link.

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Latest UNISON Branch News

14 July 2010
Plans to boost local councillors’ allowances by 2.3% were condemned as “a disgrace” today by UNISON.
 
The Local...
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6 July 2010
Local Governemnt employers have now decided to impose a pay freeze - really a cut-from April 2010. You deserve better. You won't need telling that local government workers are...
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29 June 2010
The Council Leader Steve Houghton has said that the £40m savings the Council must make over the...
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10 June 2010
The new coalition Government plans to slash public...
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18 May 2010
We need you to tell us if you are working alongside of agency workers or consultants.
 
We have asked the Council on numerous...
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5 May 2010
Our Branch archive holds some interesting documents ranging from minute books dating from 1929 and newsletters spanning the last 3 decades. Some of our older members may...
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29 April 2010
UNISON Branch delegates recently attended an election hustings meeting called by the Civil Service union PCS at the NUM Hall in...
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29 April 2010
Soon you will have the opportunity to choose who will lead UNISON for the next five years. Our general secretary has a powerful job speaking on your behalf,...
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26 April 2010
UNISON have taken the fight for a cleaner world and responsible investment to the BP annual general meeting in London.
19 March 2010

UNISON was surprised to learn of an article published in the Yorkshire Post that claimed Barnsley Council “was the biggest spender on consultancy in the region paying out more than £9m, since April 2008, compared with ...

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