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All Members Covid Catch Up Zoom Meeting

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Please join us at our all members UNISON zoom meeting. This will be an opportunity for you to give us any updates on your situation and to hear of any Council or service wide developments we are aware of.
Are there any (other) issues you think we should be taking up?
Compare your situation with those working in other settings or for other employers.

Topic: All members COVID catch up meeting
Time: Nov 5, 2020 06:00 PM London

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81516282997?pwd=T1JaV3ExdjRXMmVsdW1lc3NPZ2ZiUT09

Meeting ID: 815 1628 2997
Passcode: 176084

Adult Services Covid Catch Up Zoom Meeting

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Please join us at our monthly Adult Services UNISON zoom meeting. This will be an opportunity for you to give us any updates on your situation and to hear of any Council or service wide developments we are aware of.

Are there any (other) issues you think we should be taking up?

Topic: COVID catch up Adults Services UNISON meeting

Time: Nov 4, 2020 12:30 PM London

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89422428388?pwd=MXpvN0FxS1V2K3FsYVJmTzNkdnhlQT09

Meeting ID: 894 2242 8388

Passcode: 927036

Defend your Pension and Redundancy Pay

Austerity, Local, News, Repairs, UNISON Campaign
Dear UNISON members
Members the Government have passed legislation which severely attacks our Pension rights and our Redundancy Pay.
There is already evidence that cuts
 and sackings are coming our way as already employers are using fire and rehire to cut the Terms and Conditions of their workforce British Gas and British Airways to name a few.
This latest attack is designed to cut the amount you will get in the event you are made redundant.
Please can you email your MP to sign this Early Day Motion.
“ That this House notes with concern that with the prospect of potentially significant further cuts in jobs in local government, the Government is seeking to drive through plans to cut the pension or severance payments to public sector members of the Local Government Pension Scheme aged 55 and above; and supports those trade unionists campaigning both to expose the implications of the Government’s plans and to oppose their imposition.”
Solidarity
John Burgess
Branch Secretary Barnet UNISON

Our fight to end low pay

Austerity, Barnet Group, Barnet Homes, Local, News, Repairs, Solidarity, TBG Flex, UNISON Campaign

There is definitely a mood in the air here in Barnet.

 I can’t put my finger on it but it is there.

 In the last few weeks our reps have been going into workplaces and recruiting both members and reps in services where staff have been working throughout COVID, services such as care homes, waste and recycling, street cleansing, housing repairs and gas services, parking enforcement and passenger transport to name but a few.

One of the major issues is that they are all low paid workers and they quite rightly feel they are not being paid enough, especially when you consider they have worked on throughout all the restraints caused by the virus.

For the past six months these workers have been directed into the COVID workplace by senior managers all working from the comfort of their homes.

Being able to work from is not an option for these workers.

While senior management are saving money on transport costs because they can work from home these workers are paying the rising costs of public transport to get to their workplaces.

 Today was no exception. We met a group of workers in the Repairs and Gas Service who had recently TUPED into the Barnet Group from Mears. There were many serious issues raised, all of which can and must be dealt with by our union.

 What was great about the meeting was that this previously un-unionised workforce quickly grasped the importance of union membership in the workplace. Not only have they already begun to recruit the whole of the service, they have understood the need to have local reps and we recruited two union reps and one Health and Safety rep.

I never get tired of working with members and today reminded me of what we can do if we have the confidence and support of the workforce.

Today is but the beginning I sense things are going to get interesting here in Barnet over the next six to nine months.

 Solidarity

John Burgess

Branch Secretary, Barnet UNISON.

General Secretary Ballot Opens 28th October. Use Your Vote!

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UNISON is holding an election to choose who will be the next General Secretary to lead the union for the next five years. The General Secretary is the most senior role in the union and is the public face of UNISON at home and abroad.

Now it’s time for UNISON members to choose the person who leads the union. All current members, including retired members, who were in membership on 28 June 2020 have the right to vote. Ballot papers will be sent to the most recent home address you have given UNISON. You are being asked to vote for the person who speaks up for you with employers and politicians; who will make the case on issues that matter to you.

The General Secretary represents UNISON – and you – when talking to the media, other unions, employers and to parliament. It is important to have your say in electing the union’s leader.

Barnet UNISON nominated Paul Holmes – here’s why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGAcji7qsDk

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