NORWICH CITY UNISON

The Norwich City UNISON Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on Wednesday 14 March 2012 in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Norwich from 12.45pm to 2.30pm.  Refreshments will be available outside the Council Chamber from 12.30pm.

The AGM is open to all UNISON members so please encourage your UNISON colleagues to attend.

Please come along and take an active part in the life of your branch.

Report of the Norwich City UNISON Branch AGM 2011

The Norwich City UNISON branch AGM on Wednesday 16 March 2011 was well attended with 46 members present at the meeting. This report presents the highlights from the meeting.



Opening Remarks: Branch Chair, Scott Brinkley, gave his opening remarks by welcoming and thanking members for attending the meeting.

More than a dozen Norwich City UNISON branch officers, stewards, members and their families descended on London at the weekend to 'March for the Alternative'.

They took part in the biggest public demonstration in the capital for 8 years, joining up to 500,000 people including thousands of other UNISON members in demonstration against the government's cuts programme.

A truly significant milestone towards implementating single status was reached last Thursday when the Norwich City UNISON branch committee agreed to ballot members on the package offered by the council – with a recommendation to accept.

The latest round of negotiations saw the council accepting UNISON’s arguments in favour of enhancing the financial package for affected individuals. As a result, the offer was amended to include six months back pay for individuals whose pay is to increase and six months protection for those who will see their pay decrease.

An important step has been taken towards the council’s proposal for single status following a meeting of cabinet on Wednesday.

At the meeting cabinet agreed to UNISON’s request to amend the council’s single status proposal. The amendments put forward and agreed by cabinet include making provisions for up to six months back pay and protection.

The other options considered, but rejected, by cabinet were:

Many thanks to all Norwich City UNISON branch members that joined over 2000 other demonstrators at Saturday's march, organised by Norfolk Coalition Against the Cuts.

On Saturday 4 December 2010, over 2000 activists, demonstrators and representatives of many Norfolk organisations turned out to show their opposition to the cuts.  

Assemble at Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich City Centre 12pm on Saturday 4 December 2010.

The Norwich City Unison branch are hosting a special event from Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines, 'Enforced Disappearances: Philippines'.

The event will take place in the council chamber, City Hall from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on Thursday 14 October.

All members are welcome to come along to find out more about the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines and hear the stories of the special guest speakers, including:

The Norwich City Unison branch is running a competition for its members to win a prize of 2 tickets for 'The Big Three', a lecture by mountaineer Doug Scott at the Norwich Playhouse on Wednesday 16 June (7.30pm).    Two sets of 2 tickets are available.

The ballot has opened for the election of Unison’s general secretary and ballot papers have been sent to members’ home addresses. The ballot closes on Friday 11 June, with the result announced on 22 June.

If you don't receive a ballot paper or have another query, please contact our ballot helpline on 0845 355 0845. Lines are open 6am-midnight Monday to Friday and 9am-4pm on Saturday. The textphone number is 0800 0 967 968.

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