Wolverhampton General branch

BRANCH MEETING REPORT
At last night meeting a packed council chamber heard from Ade Turner Branch Secretary on latest developments on the Single Status agreement.
The first important point Ade made was it is not yet an agreement!
The proposals are currently with UNISON national office, who before anything else have to 'sign them off' as meeting equality issues and UNISON aims and objectives.
At the moment the national office will not 'sign them off' firstly because it offers no pay protection for those who will lose under single status (we are led to believe that Wolverhampton is the only council in the  country not offering pay protection).
Secondly because of the attacks on our terms and conditions which are built into the proposals
particularly that of going to 5 from 7 day work (this could effectively mean our employer expecting us to work weekends with no additional pay).
Ade reported that employees would be receiving their new proposed grading from managers in the first week of October but that the employer intended to wait until November to inform schools staff. He also reported that upto 75% would gain or remain the same, but emphasised
that they needed to bear in mind the possible impact of reduced terms and conditions (shift pay , car allowance etc) and that although they would receive notice of the new scales to remember that it had not yet been agreed.