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Public service cuts will increase costs for ordinary families and delay recovery - UNISON
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UNISON Scotland
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Thurs 24 Sept 2009
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| A headlong rush to cut and privatise public services will lead to delays in coming out of recession, said the public service union UNISON today.
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Social work union welcomes Brandon Muir reports
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UNISON Scotland
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Wed 19 August 2009
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| UNISON, the union representing Scotland’s social work staff, today welcomed the two reports into the Brandon Muir case in Dundee.
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Ignore the Spin - It's Cuts, Not Flexibility
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Dundee City UNISON
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Sunday 8th February 2009
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| Employer's Scandalous Propaganda Email Sells Flexibility Drivel to Council Staff
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2008 PAY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE CLAIM
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UNISON Scotland
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Thursday 28th November 2007
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| The Trade Union Side of the Scottish Joint Council at its meeting held on 27 September 2007 considered the pay policies of each trade union in respect of the 2008 Pay and Conditions of Service and agreed the following claim:
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Branch Website Members Forum Suspended
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Branch Website Admin
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Thursday 16 August 2007
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| Following repeated attempts by third parties (from Russia, the US etc) to add links to various dodgy websites onto the memberlist of the Forum, it was decided to suspend it for now until a more secure means of access can be set up.
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UNISONScotland leader speaks out on Trident
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UNISON - Scotland
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Friday 23 February 2007
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| Matt Smith, Scottish Secretary of the country's largest trade union, UNISON, will tomorrow (Saturday) call on the Government to abandon its plans to replace the Trident nuclear fleet.
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Local Government staff deliver improved services despite difficulties - UNISON comments on Accounts Commission report
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UNISON - Scotland
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Thursday 15 February 2007
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| Scotland's local government staff are delivering improved services despite facing failures to deliver equal pay and continuing threats to split up council services. That is the message that comes the union representing local government staff - UNISON, on the report by the Accounts Commission(AC) - Overview of the 2006 local authority audits.
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Sharing public services may threaten public accountability
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UNISON - Scotland
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Saturday 10 February 2007
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| UNISON, Scotland's largest trade union will today express its concern about the potential that the Scottish Executive's 'shared services agenda' may have to take services away from local control. The union's Scottish Council meets in Glasgow today, and will debate a motion critical of the potential impact of shared services on democracy, jobs and services put forward by the union's City of Edinburgh Branch.
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Midlothian social work staff problems raised over a year ago
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UNISON - Scotland
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Thursday 1 February 2007
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| UNISON, the union that represents Social Work staff in Midlothian today said that recruitment and retention had been problems in the department for some time, which meant increased pressure on staff.
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Falkirk strike closes council facilities
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UNISON - Scotland
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Monday 18 December 2006
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| Strike action by UNISON and GMB members at Falkirk Council has shut down council offices, libraries, and sports centres. Almost 100% of trade union members in refuse collection, building maintenance ground maintenance and street cleansing took strike action. Education provision was disrupted by support workers and some classes were cancelled today, Monday.
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Three-day walkout by council staff is cancelled
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The Herald - Gerry Braiden
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Tuesday 5 December 2006
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| A three-day strike that threatened to cripple Scotland's largest local authority has been cancelled.
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Council strike called off after last-minute talks
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Glasgow Evening Times - Brian Currie
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Monday 4 December 2006
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| A STRIKE by Glasgow council workers has been called off after last-minute talks.
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Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Key Issues
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UNISON Briefing
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Briefing No.145 Sept 2006
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| The Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) is consulting with trade unions and employers about a new look Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in Scotland. Initially the SPPA released a consultation document, ‘Facing the Future’, in November 2004 looking at this issue.
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Threats to staff at Glasgow Fingerprint Bureau
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UNISON reaction
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Tuesday 12 September 2006
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| UNISON today condemned threats to force the resignation or retirement of six staff of Glasgow’ Fingerprint Bureau, without any evidence of wrongdoing and in the middle of an enquiry run by the Scottish Parliament into the Scottish Criminal Records Office.
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Classroom Assistants research points to unfair pay
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UNISON
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Friday 8 September 2006
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| UNISON – the union that represents school support staff – today said that an Equal Opportunities Commission formal investigation into the role and status of Classroom Assistants in Scottish primary schools – called Valuable Assets – was showing that they were working at high levels of responsibility – including planning and organising learning activities.
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Councils’ efficiency measures will stall unless workforce involved
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UNISON
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Friday 18 August 2006
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| UNISON – The unison representing staff in both Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils – today said that the proposals for Joint Working between the councils’ were being put at risk by the councils’ failure to involve their staff unions.
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Signs of Common Sense on Council Housing
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Defend Council Housing
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Tuesday 26 June 2006
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| UNISON Sponsored Defend Council Housing Campaign welcome Ruth Kelly's recent statement as a sign that common sense is beginning to prevail over dogma in the debate over the future of Council Housing.
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Local Government Pension Scheme: joint statement
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UNISON National Website
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Tuesday 11 April 2006
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| Joint statement from unions and employers on further talks over the future of the local government pension scheme.
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Industrial action on pensions suspended
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UNISON National Website
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Wednesday 12 April 2006
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| UNISON today agreed to recommend suspending planned industrial action over pensions after the joint unions agreed a basis for further talks with employers
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2006 PAY OFFER - CONSULTATION
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Carol Judge - UNISON Scotland
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April 2006
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| This circular sets out the process of consultation to be undertaken by Branches on the 2006 Pay Offer for local government employees in Scotland. I take this opportunity to urge branches to consult as widely as possible with members regarding this offer. Branches are reminded that the consultation exercise is an opportunity for recruitment.
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Pensions talks update
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UNISON UK
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Friday 7 April 2006
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| The Local Government Association wrote on Friday to all local authority chief executives outlining the progress on TUC-brokered talks about the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) dispute.
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April 26 Strike - National Rally in Edinburgh
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UNISON Scotland
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Friday 8 April 2006
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| Edinburgh will be the focus for Scotland on 26 April if no progress is made in talks.
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Meat inspectors' action brings last minute talks
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UNISON Scotland
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Saturday 1 April 2006
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| The week long strike of meat inspectors across the UK appears to have brought a last minute offer of talks from English local government employers and the UK government.
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UNISON CHIEF CHALLENGES GOVERNMENT PENSION ADVISER ON “WILDLY MISLEADING CLAIMS”
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UNISON General Secretary
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Thursday 26 January 2006
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| UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, has challenged so-called Government pensions adviser Douglas Anderson, a partner with Hymans Robertson, to withdraw his “wildly misleading claims” that 26% of council tax receipts go towards public sector pensions.
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UNIONS START STRIKE CLOCK TICKING OVER LOCAL GOVERNMENT PENSIONS
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JOINT RELEASE FROM: UNISON, AMICUS, TGWU, GMB, UCATT, CYWU, Napo, NUT and FBU
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Monday 23 January 2006
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| Nine unions representing 1.5 million workers today (23 January) agreed to ballot those workers for strike action over planned cuts to their pension scheme. UNISON, AMICUS, TGWU, GMB, UCATT, CYWU, Napo, NUT and FBU today agreed the strategy and this afternoon UNISON’s industrial action committee agreed to ballot one million of its members.
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Executive accused of pensions con trick
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The Sunday Times
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January 22 2006
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| THE European commission has accused the Scottish executive of misleading hundreds of thousands of public sector workers over its reasons for banning them from retiring at 60 on full pensions.
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Scotland's firefighters could be headed for their first strike since 2003.
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The Scotsman (PETER MACMAHON)
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Thu 19 Jan 2006
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| Firefighters to ballot on joining local government employees' pensions strike
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Unions' anger over pension change
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BBC
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19 January 2006
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| Unions and local authority leaders have reacted angrily after it emerged many council workers will lose their right to retire on a full pension at 60.
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SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT - WRITTEN ANSWER (LGPS - Scotland)
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SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
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19 January 2006
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| Carolyn Leckie (Central Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take separate legal advice with regard to the abolition of Rule 85 of the local government pension scheme, in light of conflicting legal advice reported by the UK Government, COSLA and UNISON.
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Council staff to work extra 5 years for pension
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The Scotsman (PETER MACMAHON)
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18 January 2006
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| Local government workers denied same pensions as other civil servants
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UNISON may strike to defend pensions
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UNISON Scotland
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17 January 2006
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| UNISON, Scotland's public service union, today responded to the statement by Tom McCabe MSP, with a warning that pensions decisions in Westminster could spark a dispute in Scotland with thousands of Scotland's public service workers.
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UNISON to mount challenge over attack on Local Government pensions
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UNISON Scotland
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2 December 2005
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| The UK President of UNISON, Scotland's public service union, will announce that the union intends to challenge the proposed removal of the rule of 85 and other detrimental changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) announced by John Prescott on Friday.
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Local government funding must deliver equal pay - UNISON
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UNISON Scotland
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23 November 2005
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| UNISON, Scotland's local government union, warned that the settlement for Scottish Local Government 2006-7 announced today by Tom McCabe MSP would fall short of delivering the money needed to deliver the front line services the Executive wants, and would not be sufficient to pay the cost of delivering equal pay across the sector.
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ST ANDREW'S DAY MARCH AND CELEBRATION AGAINST RACISM & FASCISM SATURDAY 26th NOVEMBER 2005
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STUC
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22 November 2005
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| March assembles 10.30am, Blythswood Square, Glasgow March off 11.00am to celebration in Trades Hall, Glassford Street, 12 noon
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