Unison Herts

UNISON Local Government  is launching a wide-ranging, hard hitting campaign over local government pay, job cuts and privatisation in 2010/11

The campaign aims to highlight the importance of local government services and to engender public support for maintaining the current level of public services and fair pay and conditions of our members.  The campaign will focus on improving morale and the negotiating environment over pay, redundancies and service changes.

The campaign which is called ‘Better Pay, Better Services, Better Jobs for Local Government’ also aims to counter a number of significant threats posed by the possibility of a Conservative central government, which include de-recognition of trade unions, the end of DOCAS, a concerted attack on the Local Government Pension Scheme and attacks on facility time.

A leaflet describing the campaign can be found here. Branches can order copies of this ‘Better Pay, Better Services, Better Jobs for local government – Members Pay Leaflet 2010/11 through UNISON Communications quoting stock no: 2800)  Or you can download it by clicking the document on the right

Further materials will be sent out to branches shortly including leaflets highlighting the effects of cuts to services and explaining why UNISON are campaigning strongly for public services in the current financial climate and why cuts to public service jobs should not be inevitable.

Additional materials will be available in the New Year including online pay campaign videos, tools for branches to understand/calculate the local economic effects of council redundancies and materials promoting the role of local government workers and demonstrating what the public will lose if posts are cut.

UNISON will also be gathering information from council budgets on what their pay expectations are for 2010/11 and beyond, as well as developing a recruitment and media strategy to build the campaign.

If you have any ideas of how best to take our campaign forward, then contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The latest information will be available from www.unison.org.uk/localgov