LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIONS OUTRAGED AT PAY FREEZE This e-mail is sent on behalf of Heather Wakefield to local government branches in England, Northern and Wales (Scotland – for information).   Dear Colleague   The Local Government Employers have today told the unions that there will be a pay freeze in 2010/2011 for NJC staff and for other local government groups.  This was announ...

Local government employers offer just 0.5% (07/04/09) Local government unions expressed bitter disappointment yesterday at a 0.5% pay offer by the Local Government Employers.The employers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have said that the offer, which is for 2009-10, will not be imposed,...

The pay dispute covering local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has produced negotiations which, at least in relation to the current year’s pay offer, appear to be getting nowhere. Our Scottish local government brothers and sisters seem determinedly set on further strike...

EWS FROM THE GREEN PARTY of England and Wales LGBT GROUP Solidarity with Local Government strikers!15.7.8 On the eve of the industrial action in local Government, Media Officer for LGBTGreens, Phelim Mac Cafferty stated:?LGBT Greens wish to commend the sterling work of local govt workers- the emptying of bins, the cleaning of our authority's schools, the conduct of marriages and civil partnerships...

In the latest sign of a wind of change blowing through government IT policy, the organisation responsible for registering property titles has invited businesses to build a pioneering new information system rather than trying to do the job itself. Land Registry, which handles property titles in England and Wales, last week offered to support commercial developers of websites that display details of...

Local government unions have warned employers that the 0.5% pay offer for England, Wales and Northern Ireland is totally unacceptable, and it called on them to open meaningful negotiations as a...

Well there we are then, the trade unions in local government (in England, Wales and Northern Ireland) have agreed proposed terms of reference for the arbitrator to whom the Executive of the NJC trade union side decided to refer our current pay dispute nearly two months ago. We are going to agree...

Local Government Association says 60% of councils have cut staff this year and a similar proportion plan to axe posts in the next 12 months Almost 7,000 jobs have been axed by councils in England in the last six months, with further cuts expected, new figures showed today. The Local Government Association, the umbrella body for councils in England and Wales, blamed the recession as it unveiled res...

It is not too late for the government to pull back from this confrontation and scrap this attack on pensions says GMB GMB members working in local government, the NHS and the civil service across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have voted by more than 4 to 1 in favour of strike action on 30

With today’s news about the interim payment of the 2008 pay offer to local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland coming hot on the heels of the request that UNISON branches consult our members about the 2009 pay claim, I begin to feel that local government pay rises could become...