Unison eFocus 23 July

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

This week, as Olympic fever starts to grip the country, I would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work in getting the Olympic park and other official sites ready for the spotlight ...  23 July 2012 Four out of five service groups say vote 'yes' in the LGPS ballot Members covered by the Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales are being urged to vote yes to a new LGPS 2014 scheme when they are balloted this month. In all, around 660,000 members in five UNISON service groups will be covered by the ballot, including: 580,000 members in local government; 40,000 in police and justice; 19,000 in higher education; 17,000 in community; 6,000 in the water, environment and transport service group. The local government, police and justice, community and WET service groups are all recommending that members vote 'yes' in the ballot. The higher education service group is recommending that members vote 'no'.   PENSIONS LGPS 2014 - Time to have your say Members covered by the Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales are about to vote on proposals for a new LGPS from 2014 (England and Wales only) LGPS 2014: time to vote yes (England and Wales only) LGPS 2014: Recommendations from the service group executives After consultating members, branches and regions, the five service group executives covering members in the LGPS in England and Wales met on Thursday to consider their recommendation in the ballot - this is what they said (England and Wales only) LGPS 2014: Ballot questions and answers A guide to some of the questions surrounding the ballot (England and Wales only). LGPS 2014 - online voting The ballot of members starts on 31 July and members will be able to vote online or by returning their ballot paper by 24 August (England and Wales only) LGPS 2014 - higher education Higher education members see here (England and Wales only)   A MILLION VOICES FOR PUBLIC SERVICES Marching for a future that works Sign up to support the march against austerity on 20 October Olympic brand is forcing public safety into second place Important work of trading standards limited by commitment British crime survey Government plans to make drastic cuts to policing threaten to undo progress in the fight against crime Tory candidates for police and crime commissioners should come clean on privatisation plans Private companies to run policing services is a dangerous experiment with public safety and taxpayers' money Sure Start Centres should be ring fenced not cut These cuts are counterproductive   NEWS Swindon lobbies Tory council attacking facility time (20/07/12) 'This proposal could end up costing Swindon council' 12-week consultation period should stay as minimum (19/07/12) Cutting consultation time will lead to poor decision making Healthworkers fight back in North East (18/07/12) Northumbria trust staff strike over cut to terms and conditions Court of appeal gives stabbed social worker right to sue health authorities (18/07/12) Attack could and should have been prevented   ORGANISING Back to the future in Scotland Centralising Scotland's police could be a case of back to the '70s

 

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