This link will stay at the top until we win the battle :) Please click the blue link above to sign the e-petition. SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING 19 JANUARY 2011 There will be a lobby of the Council on 19 January 8.30am City Chambers. The Council will be deciding if they are going to privatise IFM (Intergrated Facilities Management) and CATS (Corpotate & Transactional Services). Please turn up if you can to tell the Council that you do not agree with the privatisation of these services. ~~~ COUNCIL REJECTS PRIVATISATION PROPOSALS At the meeting of the Council on 24 November 2011 SNP, Labour and the Greens voted to keep Environment services in house rejecting privatisation proposals. The branch would like to thank everybody who campaigned against these proposals. However the Council have still to decide if Intergrated Facilties Management functions and Coporate and Transactional services are to be privatised. This decision will potentially be made at the full Council meeting on 22 december 2011. Keep up the Campaign and please sign the petition above if you have not done so already LOBBY EDINBURGH COUNCIL 8.30am - 10am 24 November 2011 - City Chambers, High Street. On 24 November 2011 the council will decide if they will privatise services within Environment or keep them in house Show your opposistion to privatisation by lobbying the council. ~~~ UNITE AGAINST FASCISM PROTEST The rascist Scottish and England defense league want to march in Edinburgh on 10 September. Show you disgust by attending rally at 11am 10 September at the mound and marching to wellington Statue(east end of princess street) Saturday 6 August 2011 There will be 3 stalls this weekend: 1pm at the Kirkgate (foot of the Walk); 1.30pm94 Nicholson Street, Southside, outside Tesco's; 12pm-2pm Portobello High Street, outside Bank of Scotland. We need as many people as possible to help gather signatures, speak to members of the public and hand out leaflets. Either contact your local steward or one of the officials for info or just turn up on the day. ~~~ Unite/Unison will have a stall at the foot of leith walk on 30 July at 1pm.We will be handing out leaflets and chatting to the public about our anti cuts/privatisation campaign. anybody who would like to help please contact Stevie Macgregor on 0781 889 0555 or just turn up on the day. UPDATE: Thanks to all who turned up to help out. ANTI PRIVATISATION PETITION Please take a few moments to sign the anti privatisation petition it can be found HERE ANTI PRIVATISATION MEETING The next meeting will take place on 29 June at 5pm at Unites district office. SPECIAL ACTIVIST COMMITTEE MEETING This meeting has been organised to discuss how the cuts to public services impacts on the Unite membership and service users. The meeting will take place on 27 June at 6pm in the European room at the City Chambers BRANCH MEETING The next meeting of the branch will be on 8 June 2011 at 5pm at Unite's district office Organisational Reviews within Edinburgh Council If your department is subject to a review and you want to discuss this with Unite please contact your local shop steward or Stevie MacGregor on 0781 889 0555. EQUAL PAY If you are an employee with Edinburgh Council and want to find out if you may have an equal pay claim please contact Stevie macgregor on 0781 889 0555 steviemacgregor@blueyonder.co.uk The next Branch meeting will take place on 4 May 2011 at 5pm at Unite's District office. BALLOT OUTCOME We can confirm that the Council's proposal on the application of pay protection for those who were in reciept of bonus payments has been rejected following a ballot of the membership PAY PROTECTION BALLOT Unite's ballot on the Council's pay protection proposal will take place on 9&10 March from 10am until 2pm at Powderhall training room BRANCH MEETING The Branch meeting that was scheduled for March 2 @ 5pm at Unites district office has been cancelled. New date will be announced shortly LOBBY AGAINST COUNCIL CUTs Thursday 10 February at the City Chambers 8.30am to 9.30am UNITE RECRUITMENT Unite will have a recruitment stall on 8 February 2011 at Waverly Court at the Courtyard opposite the lifts from 12.15pm until 1.45pm. Come along to speak to officials to see what Britain's largest union can offer you. BRANCH MEETING A meeting of the branch will take place on 12 January at 5pm at Unites District office ~~~ MEETING FOR MEMBERS WITHIN REFUSE COLLECTION A meeting has been arranged for 6 January 2011 to discuss " Future State" proposals for those employed within refuse collection. The meeting will take place at 2.30pm at Russel Road ~~~ If any members wish to appeal against their Job evaluation outcome please contact your shop steward ASAP for assistance. If your work location does not have a shop steward please contact Sandy Smart Reigonal Industrial Organiser, Unite on 0131 5569676. Appeals should be submitted to Unite no later than 12 January 2011 ~~ URGENT PRESS RELEASE FROM UNITE & UNISON - 21-10-10 Staff across the City of Edinburgh Council are losing some of their agreed 3 year Pay Protection after the Council renaged on Single Status and Pay Modernisation. Instead of the Full contracted pay being protected they are using an average worked out over the staff's previous years contracted pay. This means many staff who have been absent through legitimate sickness, carers leave, maternity leave etc could be adversely affected. Staff affected so far are weekly paid staff that include Refuse Collectors, Roadworkers and Gardeners but the full extent of the problem will only become apparent next week when monthly paid staff receive their payslips. As far as the Joint Trades union's in Edinburgh are aware this is completely at odds with the rest of Scotland's Local Authorities approach to Pay Protection. "We are staggered that in the first week of pay after the imposition of Modernising Pay, the Council have torn up the agreed approach to Pay Protection" said Stephen MacGregor of UNITE. "Our members, who have had their payslips are rightly furious and feel betrayed by the Council" said Unison's Kevid Duguid. The Joint Trades Unions have lodged a Formal Dispute with the Council and will be consulting their members over the coming days. ~~~ Unite will be meeting with the Director of SfC Mark Turley on 29-10-10 to discuss the ongoing dispute within refuse collection ~~~ Council impose "Future State" on refuse collection At the Council's Policy and Strategy meeting on 28 September 2010, and despite deputations from Unite to the committee, it was decided at that meeting that the imposition process would commence. Unite will meet with the membership shortly to discusss this. Meanwhile the ongoing industrial action short of a strike remains in place within refuse collection. FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE CUTS AND PRIVATISATION AGENDA Unite have recently launched a campaign to fight back against Edinburgh Council's budget cuts and privatisation agenda. If you would like to help please contact Tam Belll or Stephen MacGregor ~~~ Dismissal and re-engagement letters A reminder to members to sign and send back their dismissal and re-engagement letters. Failure to do so will leave you with your contract of employment being terminated. ~~~ STUC MARCH & RALLY 23 October 2010 in Edinburgh. STUC national campaign for jobs, services, fair taxes and a decent living wage. 11am Assemble East Market Street. March commences at 11.30am and at 12.30 meet at Rally Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens. ~~~ ACAS MEETING Unite and the Council met with ACAS on 9 September 2010 in an attempt to resolve the ongoing refuse collection dispute. Unfortunately no breakthrough was made. At the meeting Unite tabled reasonable proposals that could have resolved the dispute but these were rejected by the council. No further proposals were given by the council at the meeting. Unite will now consult with its membership to decide on our next course of action. Refuse Collection Dispute Today (31 August 2010) Unite met with the Council to discuss the rejection of the Council's "Future State" proposals following a ballot of the membership. It was agreed at the meeting that the services of ACAS in its concilliation capacity would be used in order to attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute within refuse collection. About time, we've been asking for this for a year. ~ BUDGET CUTS Unite was extremely dissapointed to hear through the media on 19 August 2010 that there were to be job losses within the Council. Unite met with Council leader Jenny Dawe and Councillor Phil Wheeler on the 18th of August at the meeting of the Council's Joint Consultative Group (a forum to discuss just this type of issue) and no mention was made of these job losses. Unite will be seeking an urgent meeting with the Council leader to get an explanation for her actions. It would appear the administration would rather deal with employees via the media than through proper consultation with them and their unions. ~~~ GENERAL SECRETARY NOMINATIONS A special branch meeting will take place on 26 August 2010 to decide on the Branch nomination for the upcoming position of General Secretary for Unite. The meeting will take place at Unite's district office.
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