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• Question: who replied to Bob's Survey, managers, heads of service....how many employees?
• Question: Can he provide the stats openly,  just as we have below.
• Question: Can he also show comments left by employees etc....as we are a transparent council

Please go to the blog on the Source and leave your comments.

Unison Online Survey results

http://www.rationalsurvey.com/analytics/viewResults/stdy_perd_id/7525

 

Room Moves

 Please note: the UNISON Office as Room 43, Old Viewforth

 

Unions prepare for strike ballot

Statement from the Joint Trade Unions at Stirling Council - UNISON, Unite, GMB and UCATT

It is  the JTUC's view that Stirling Council have walked away from negotiations and collective bargaining:

The trade unions therefore are left with no alternative but to prepare to ballot their members for industrial action. Stirling Council proposes savage cuts to both pay and terms and conditions, coming on the back of three years of a pay freeze.

Just to remind everyone - Cuts to terms and conditions include:

• Cuts to Overtime/Weekend working/Night hours payment
• Public Holidays - losing 3, two at Easter and May Day as well as overtime payment for public holidays being cut
• Incremental progression - going from 18 month to 2.5 years (this will take 7.5 years to get to the top of the salary scale rather than 4.5 years currently)
• Cuts to annual leave
• Organisational Change policy - Voluntary severance changes - Conservation of salary changes
• Cuts to Long service awards - ending of the scheme
• Flexitime - Ending of scheme
• Changes to hourly working week

The changes to terms and conditions affect all of us, therefore we need to stand together and be prepared to fight for our rights.

If you want to read more detail about cuts see the Cheif Exec's document here

Meeting

The meetings held in the Albert Halls to discuss cuts to terms and conditions were very well attended and it was encouraging to see that members were discussing issues that will affect all of us.

Please speak to your colleagues and remind them that cuts to Terms and Conditions will effect everyone and that they can find an application form for Unison here. 

The Chief Exec's survey

This survey asks you to vote on one of three options for the working week, however no matter which one you pick, be perfectly clear, all options include the proposed cuts to your terms and conditions as well. This isn't made very clear and there is no option to say none of the above!

Even if you are prepared to accept a change to your working week, this will be used this to say that you are then happy to accept the changes to terms and conditions.

Please Note: The advice from the Region is if you havent already completed the survey, do not fill it in!

Perhaps people would prefer to add a comment to Bob Jack's blog on the internal website "The Source" rather than completing the Survey. 

At least this way everyone can see each others comments and get a general feel for the mood of the organisation, whereas no-one will see the comments left on the survey. 

This site is a resource for Stirling Council Unison members.