This is the new proposal that will be put to ballot.

Please feedback any concerns or questions regarding this.

We wish to clarify the situation with the industrial dispute.

(Stirling Council Leader Johanna Boyd has welcomed the news that the Council and the trades unions have reached agreement on terms and conditions.)

There has not been an agreement made between the Trade Unions and Stirling Council.  Stirling Council has put proposls on the table and we have agreed to take these proposals back to our members, then and only then can there be any agreements, this  choice lies with our members. 

Following a meeting of the Unison branch executive we need to clarify that the JTUC have only agreed to ballot members on the current offer. Unison have not agreed to the proposal, and have not agreed in any way to support the proposal. Unison dispute the language used on the Council's external website and will be asking that the current statement be retracted.

Over the coming weeks members will be balloted on whether they wish to accept what has been offered, that alone will dictate Unison's position.

The negotiating team have worked extremely hard over the last two weeks, but management remain adamant that in the short term at least hours need extended while pay and T&Cs need to be cut.

Unison is still consulting on the legality on a number of points and, if the offer is rejected, will move forward with further industrial action.
 

We ask that our members bear with us during this process.  We will be putting these proposals our to ballot for our members views. 

In the press release it states, JTUC Chair Abigail Robertson said: “Following a series of meetings between Stirling Council management and GMB, UCATT, UNISON and Unite the Union, a revised set of proposals has been arrived at that allows for the continued suspension of industrial action whilst the unions consult their members on the new proposals."

This has not changes and is what we will be doing. 

Following a series of meetings between Stirling Council management and UNISON  a revised set of proposals has been arrived at,  that that allows for the continued suspension  of industrial action whilst UNISON consults it members on the proposed changes.

Lorraine Thompson, UNISON Branch Secretary, said "the intensive talks have allowed for both sides to articulate their position, consider each other's points and  arrive at a revised set of proposals that will hopefully be acceptable to our members, to that end the talks have been productive"

“ If the new proposals are accepted by the members it will allow both sides to concentrate on the continued delivery of quality public services to the people served by Stirling Council,”

David O’Connor, Regional Organiser, was keen to point out “that whilst the Council Leader, Johanna Boyd welcomed news of an agreement, that this new is somewhat presumptuous in that it will be for our member to tell us that we have an agreement or not. We will be consulting our members by means of a democratic ballot and it will only be at the end of this process that we will know if there is a deal to be signed up to”