Barnet Homes staff face uncertain Future

Barnet Homes Future Shape questionnaire

To all members working for Barnet Homes, you should have received a questionnaire and letter regarding the Future Shape of the Council. We have also included copies of Council Committee papers that would suggest that they are also looking at the future of Barnet Homes.

Options include :

  • Retaining Barnet Homes and extending their business
  • Bringing the management of the stock back in house after completion of the Decent Homes’ programme.
  • Transfer the stock to a Housing Association.

It is important that you return the questionnaire and attend the meetings outlined in the letter as this affects your future and your pension.

The meetings are in the Boardroom on the 9th Floor Barnet House on

Monday 22 September and Wednesday 1 October 2008 from 12.30pm

They should last only half an hour and John Burgess will be attending
I look forward to seeing you there.

Anne Denison.

UNISON Convenor for Barnet Homes

 

eNEWSLETTER 9 September 2008

Dear Barnet UNISON member

We have just launched the Barnet UNISON website. We will endeavour to keep the web site up to date with what is happening to members of our branch. I would urge you you to sign up in order you can take part in consultation, forums, polls. You will find the User Sign up at the bottom left of your screen.

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eNEWSLETTER 9 September 2008

Dear Barnet UNISON member

We have just launched the Barnet UNISON website. We will endeavour to keep the web site up to date with what is happening to members of our branch. I would urge you you to sign up in order you can take part in consultation, forums, polls. You will find the User Sign up at the bottom left of your screen.

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So it begins Full story http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/29
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Employment Charter Full story http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/45
The threat is real watch this http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/9

2. Barnet College
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Full story http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/41

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eNEWSLETTER 9 September 2008

Dear Barnet UNISON member

We have just launched the Barnet UNISON website. We will endeavour to keep the web site up to date with what is happening to members of our branch. I would urge you you to sign up in order you can take part in consultation, forums, polls. You will find the User Sign up at the bottom left of your screen.

LATEST NEWS

1. What Future for Barnet Council staff?
So it begins Full story http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/29
Ask Dexter Full story http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/42
Employment Charter Full story http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/45
The threat is real watch this http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/9

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Trade unions submit Employment Charter

Barnet Briefing 3

Headines  from Briefing 3

1. The Employment Charter should form the basis for the development and appraisal of options in the Future Shape of the Council programme. Each option should be assessed to determine the employment impact and the extent to which it fulfils the requirements of the Charter.

2. The Employment Charter should be incorporated into the Council’s Corporate Procurement Strategy.

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Barnet College – Pay Ballot results

Members Vote ‘Yes’ To Pay Offer And Send Clear Message To Colleges: ‘Implement The Deal Or Face A Wave Of Anger’.

UNISON FE members in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Association of Colleges (AoC) pay recommendation offer for 2008/9 of:

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      • A 3.2% increase on all salaries and allowances from 1 October 2008, or £550 – whichever is the greater. So if a 3.2% increase gives you less than £550 you will get a £550 flat rate increase instead.

UNISON conducted a full postal ballot of every FE member in England.  90% voted in favour of the offer.

This was a vote in favour of the higher than average deal for the lowest paid with the new minimum wage of £6.91 an hour and the £550 underpinning.

The vote should send a clear message to colleges that nothing less than 100% implementation of this deal will do. Members were advised that acceptance of the offer would lead to an all-out campaign for full implementation. 

Last year a large number of colleges failed to implement the underpinning for the lower paid; this will not be allowed to happen again. Already a number of colleges are preparing to ballot for strike action over the failure of their colleges to implement the 2007/8 deal.

Christina McAnea, UNISON Head of Education and Children’s Services, said:

‘Today’s ballot result is the beginning of our campaign for 100% implementation. We want to work constructively with principals and the AoC to implement the pay deal but we are clear we have an emphatic mandate from our members and if colleges refuse to pay the deal we are prepared to take action in those colleges’.

The last FE union to reach a decision on the offer is UCU who will be meeting on the 20th September. The TU side will convene there after.

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