Branch activity

• Supporting members
• Negotiation and consultation
• Campaigning
• Communication and accountability

Supporting members and promoting their interests.
The branch is involved in a great deal of work for, with and on behalf of members. Branch officers and stewards support individual members who have grievances or who are being disciplined or investigated.

We give advice on a range of issues about people's jobs and conditions of service and about council policies. We consult with members about their issues and raise these with the council. Examples of this are below.

Homecarers issues

Teaching support staff

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Negotiation and consultation.
We negotiate with the council and with other employers about matters such as single status, service and modernisation reviews, pay in the voluntary sector and more. We respond to consultations on policy development and review. Examples can be found by clicking on the links below.

Single status

Community and voluntary sector

Gender equality scheme

Response to modernisation review on technical, ICT and janitorial staff

Response to modernisation review in community learning and development

Response to modernisation review on libraries, museums and arts development

Response to modernisation review on sports and leisure

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Campaigning
We campaign on issues at both local and national level. For more information about our campaigning work click on the links below.

Pay

Equal pay - Campaign award

Pensions

Stop the BNP

Campaign for rights of asylum seekers

Education issues

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Communication and accountability
We keep members informed of what the branch does in a number of different ways. This website is one of them. We also issue a Newsletter, UNISON Matters, three times a year and send you other briefings as the need arises, for example we sent out a number of plain language briefings on single status.

Our main way of being accountable to you, our members, is through the Branch AGM. This is an opportunity for you to hear what the branch has been doing on your behalf and to take part in setting branch policy through the motions which are debated at the AGM. UNISON is an organising union and although we are happy to provide our members with an individual service, it is also important that members take part in the collective aspects of the union.

For more information about previous AGMs click on the links below.

AGM 2008

AGM 2007

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