{"id":9429,"date":"2024-04-03T12:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:59:31","slug":"countdown-begins-just-11-days-before-9-weeks-of-strike-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2024\/04\/03\/countdown-begins-just-11-days-before-9-weeks-of-strike-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown begins just 10 Days before 9 weeks of strike action\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_countdown\" id=\"main_countedown_1\"><div class=\"countdown\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"element_conteiner\"><span  class=\"days time_left\">-736<\/span><span class=\"time_description\">Days<\/span><\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"element_conteiner\"><span  class=\"hourse time_left\">-10<\/span><span class=\"time_description\">Hours<\/span><\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"element_conteiner\"><span  class=\"minutes time_left\">-27<\/span><span class=\"time_description\">Minutes<\/span><\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"element_conteiner\"><span  class=\"secondes time_left\">-40<\/span><span class=\"time_description\">Seconds<\/span><\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><script>\r\n        document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(event) {\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('#main_countedown_1 .countdown').html('')\r\n\t\t});<\/script><style>#main_countedown_1 .countdown{text-align:center;}#main_countedown_1 .countdown{margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px}#main_countedown_1 .time_left{\r\nborder-radius:8px;\r\nbackground-color:#3DA8CC;\r\nfont-size:23px;\r\nfont-family:monospace;\r\ncolor:#000000;\r\n}\r\n#main_countedown_1 .time_description{\r\nfont-size:23px;\r\nfont-family:monospace;\r\ncolor:#000000;\r\n}\r\n#main_countedown_1 .element_conteiner{min-width:90px}<\/style>\n<p><strong>Date 3 April 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The start date of unprecedented strike action is only <strong>11 days away<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To date Barnet UNISON Mental Health social workers have already taken <strong><u>27 days<\/u><\/strong> of strike action which equates to <strong><u>405 lost working days<\/u><\/strong> across the Mental Health service, or <strong><u>4,050 service user contacts lost.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Incredibly despite two meetings with Acas, Barnet Council has yet to make a reasonable offer to try and resolve this dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Last week to try and avert the escalation of the dispute Barnet UNISON submitted more information to Barnet Council including the news that two more experienced Mental Health social workers are due to leave the teams in April thus escalating the crisis within the frontline Mental Health teams.<\/p>\n<p>We are waiting for a response.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of a meaningful offer which UNISON could recommend to their members the escalation of the strike takes place over three time periods.<\/p>\n<h3><strong style=\"font-size: 0.95em;\">The first period is a two-week strike from 15 April to 26 April 2024.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 0.95em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-First-period.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-First-period.png 900w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-First-period-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-First-period-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong style=\"font-size: 0.95em;\">The second period is a three-week strike from 13 May to 1 June 2024<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-Second-period.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-Second-period.png 900w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-Second-period-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-Second-period-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The third period is a four-week strike from 17 June to 12 July 2024. (four weeks).<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-Third-period.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-Third-period.png 900w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-Third-period-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twitter-Third-period-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>End.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date 3 April 2024. The start date of unprecedented strike action is only 11 days away. To date Barnet UNISON Mental Health social workers have already taken 27 days of strike action which equates to 405 lost working days across the Mental Health service, or 4,050 service user contacts lost. Incredibly despite two meetings with Acas, Barnet Council has yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,50,105,59,57,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-local","category-recruitment","category-solidarity","category-trades-dispute","category-unison-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9451,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions\/9451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}