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UNISON Local Government Service Group Conference 2023 – Afternoon Final Session – Day 2

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Post date June 12, 2023
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We now return to conference and we hear a speech from Mehmet Bozgeyik, Co-President , The confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK), Turkey you can find out more about this Confederation below on their international Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/kesk_int?s=20

we now move on to the motion discussions of Social Care and the first is Motion 40 – Care Workers – this motion was carried

To view the motions you can read them in the below document…

We now discuss Motion 42 Council Provided Care – this motion was carried as amended 42.1

motion 43 – Caring for our Carers – this motion was carried

Motion 41 – Adult Social Care – this motion was carried

LGBT+ Bargaining Guide was raised at this point, you can find this here..

You can also find other bargaining guides here..

We now move onto the discussions of the motions around Recruitment and Organising, the first is Motion 38 – Improving Facility time for Local Government activists – This motion was carried

Motion 39 – Empowering our reps in the fight against outsourcing – this motion was carried – this motion was carried

Now the order of business has been completed we now move to the moving of motions that were previously prioritised but not moved yet.

Motion 24 – Building trans equality in local government – this motion was carried

please talk to you branch if you would like to take part in Trans Ally Training, you can also find this useful Trans Ally Guide…

Also mentioned is that today marks the Anniversary of shootings of the shootings in pulse Nightclub in Orlando.

Motion 27 – Fighting cuts to local services and protecting disabled workers jobs – this motion was carried

The 12 motions not moved at this conference will be passed back to the Local Government Service Group Executive to be moved and report its decisions in due course.

This concludes the Local Government Service Group Conference for this year, we hope you found these blog updates useful and we will return tomorrow with more updates from this years National Delegate Conference (NDC) 2023.

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UNISON Local Government Service Group Conference 2023 – Morning Session – Day 2

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Post date June 12, 2023
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Welcome back to this years conference we begin with the moving of the Standing Orders Report 4, this sets out the business for todays conference session.

We first pause conference for a NJC (National Joint Council) photo call to show full support for the NJC Pay Ballot.

You can find out more about the NJC Pay Campaign and useful tools to use here…

We then move to the Debate of motions continuing from yesterdays motion. which was Motion 32 – Menopause awareness and support in Local Government, following emotional accounts of the struggles of those affected by menopause this was carried as amended 32.2.

The next section of the Annual Report 2023 is The Future of Local Government Funding and Cuts is moved by Matthew Egan. You can read the Annual Report here…

We Then move to the next motion, Motion 15 – Cuts and Funding – this motion was carried as amended 15.2

You can read about these Motions in the Conference guide here…

Motion 14 – Fighting for the Future of Local Government – this motion was carried

Motion 17 – Local Government Funding – a National Crisis – This motion was carried

Motion 16 – The Cost-of-living crisis and Local Government Workers – This Motion was Carried

Here is Jill Speaking on behalf of this motion, you can watch by clicking play below.

Emergency Motion 1 – is now being discussed and you can read this below – this motion was carried

This concludes the discussions of motions in this section, we now return to the remaining motions not reached on Sunday morning.

Motion 18 – Food Standards Agency – Pay, Terms and Conditions, is now being discussed – this motion was carried

We now receive a speech from Christina McAnea, General Secretary of Unison.

Cristina mentioned the Every Day Action Hero campaign you can read more in the article below.

Watch the campaign below.

‘Council staff are incredibly passionate about their roles at the heart of communities. But all too often their contributions are overlooked.
⁰‘Turning them into action heroes is a great way to put the focus on their superhuman efforts,’ general secretary @cmcanea

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— UNISON – UK's largest union (@unisontheunion) May 18, 2023

Christina highlights how important the NJC Pay Ballot please make sure you use you opportunity to vote.

This concludes this session of the Local Government Conference 2023 and will be back for this afternoons session 2023.

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Community Conference 2023 – Day 1

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Post date March 3, 2023
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To open the day your delegation attended the Housing Association sector meeting various housing issues were discussed including the 7% increase cap for rent, Tenants are not facing a hike however resources for managing the stock is having an impact, Housing benefit in effect is reduced due to this.

Housing associations are trying not to recognise trade unions and it’s difficult to know how many members are in each workplace

Then following a break for lunch the seminar begun and Christina McAnea has sent her apologies to this conference, Claire Williams national secretary will be speaking in her absence.

She raised issues of how much of the cost of living has impacted the community sector, including Housing, Voluntary sector and Social Care. community is at the forefront of this. look at how we organise across all sectors and hope to see change in the future. Improved communications to adapt to the changing world of work. review ways members can access support, access learning, and the UNISON College (click below to find out more)

Prioritising a social care campaigning work to increase strength in this sector.

Following this speech there was mention of the year of the black worker. you can find out more about that by clicking below…

Following this questions were asked and Claire and Jon Williams answered various questions from the seminar.

We now hear a speech from Nye Cominetti from Resolution Foundation – “Who Cares? The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector”