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THE UNISON NEWSLETTER

MANCUNIONJULY 2015

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ARTICLE HEADINGAfter the tremendous disappointment of the election on 7th May we have to face up to the need to defend our members and our public services for the next 5 years from concerted attacks by this Tory government.

They may have a majority of only 12 but the devil’s disciples will not be slow in going for our throat and we have to be ready from the outset.

Some speculate on the possibility of an implosion within the Government over Europe but we cannot assume or rely on that being the case. As a union we need to work our hardest to support our members in the reality they will experience in the next five years.

The July Budget stole the title of the Living Wage for a smaller amount not even paid till 2020 while immediately robbing the working poor of tax credits, attacking students and subjecting all public sector workers to five more years of 1% pay limits. The assault on in work tax credit benefits for the lowest paid makes a mockery of the much repeated pre election Tory drivel around ‘making work pay’.

At the same time benefits for the unemployed and the sick and vulnerable are slashed.

In reality they are bent on achieving in policy terms a race to the sewer in terms of the future for both those out of work and those who are low paid. If there was a genuine wish to reduce in work poverty and cut the cost of working credits the Tories could simply uprate the Minimum Wage to the Living Wage.

But they prefer to gently nudge employers in that direction, empty words to massive employers who offshore their headquarters base to avoid paying any significant tax in Britain.

The only people the Tories seek to benefit are the rich minority and their wider aim is to smash those positive achievements the labour and trade union movement have achieved in the past. So they seek to completely undermine the future availability of social housing whilst rewarding the well off by slashing inheritance tax.

Nothing else could be expected by a Government

whose election campaign was funded through bribes from the city, hedge funds and multi-nationals. It is down to us working with other trade unions and progressive organisations in our communities to do whatever we can to resist this onslaught and try and defend our membership and our services.

The Tories know we are the only movement that can really challenge them which explains their

continued attacks on trade unions, whether it is about making industrial action more difficult, blocking our members from continuing to pay subscriptions via salary or attacking our political funds.

Instead of Labour leaders obsessing over achieving a few percentage points in targeted seats the question needs to be asked why a third of the total electorate who are registered regularly do not vote.

Other than vacuous and meaningless waffle about ‘aspiration’, there needs to be a new and real change in leadership who believe in the need to provide ‘inspiration’, and motivate that third of the electorate to understand that there is a difference between the parties, and it is worth voting.

The disconnection with millions and the disillusionment with Labour which led to many to move to UKIP must be challenged head on.Which is why our Branch voted to recommend members to support Jeremy Corbyn as Leader and Tom Watson as Deputy in the Labour leadership election.

We face massive challenges ahead in all our services and employers but Manchester UNISON will do all that is possible to represent and fight for our members and services in the years ahead. Our Branch would urge all members friends and families to take part in the TUC Demonstration in Manchester on 4th October to protest against the Tories on the first day of their Conference.

Finally we need members to be active to make our union stronger. If you do not have a steward in your workplace and are willing to get involved please contact the Branch.

IN MY VIEWEVELYN DOYLE

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ORGANISING AND RECRUITMENTUNISON Organiser Dan Smith has been working with us for a few months now and here’s a report on what he’s been up to...

Organisers from UNISON North West have been supporting your local Manchester branch since Christmas visiting workplaces, recruiting members, signing up new stewards and helping to improve communication and support campaigning. So far over 700 new members and 40 new stewards have been recruited. It’s been great for me meeting members and hearing about the fantastic work you do delivering public services to the people of Manchester. We’ve visited hundreds of workplaces – including schools, colleges, libraries, council departments and the airport.

We’ve held numerous meetings, stalls, workshops and drop-in sessions. So thank you to everyone we’ve met. We hope you enjoyed all the UNISON freebies we’ve given out! Branch officers are so busy with negotiations and representation that, unfortunately, members sometimes only see the union when they need individual support or when their area is undergoing changes and restructures. So it’s been nice to meet members and let them know about the other benefits of being a UNISON member, like legal support, a free will service, a range of benefits and discounts, tax rebates for members who clean their own uniform, and our welfare scheme which provides school uniform grants and winter fuel grants to members.

However our core message has always been to improve the support we can offer members by

building our strength in the workplace. We know that the more members and activists we have, the stronger our voice is when defending terms and conditions, protecting jobs and campaigning for improvements at work. So recruiting new activists and improving communication through targeted newsletters and local workplace bulletins, campaigns and surveys has formed a big part of our work. One of the biggest successes has been the recruitment of new stewards and contacts across nearly 200 schools in Manchester. Over 30 new reps have been signed up and the first 17 recently completed their UNISON training in organising, communication, campaigning and representation and are already supporting members in their schools. The new activists will help re-launch our Schools Forum in Autumn.

Have you ever thought about getting more involved in UNISON? The strength of a trade union – and our strength in different workplaces, is dependent on local activists.

Reps are the heartbeat of UNISON and we are always looking for members to get more active as local contacts, workplace stewards, Health and Safety Reps or Union Learning Reps.

If you’ve ever thought about getting more involved, or want to know what different roles involve, then please get in touch with me at d.smith3@unison.co.uk.

If UNISON haven’t visited your workplace or team already, feel free to drop Dan an email and we can arrange a visit soon.

A warm welcome to all our new Schools

activists!

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THE GENERAL ELECTION RESULT The night of 7 May was a bitterly disappointing one. As the results came in it quickly became apparent that Labour were not going to get the votes it needed to form a government.

But worse still as we crept through Friday morning it became clear that against all odds the Conservatives had gained a majority.

Party leaders toppled like dominos. Farage quit (sort of), Clegg and Ed Miliband immediately resigned.

Now the dust is slowly settling it is time to consider what the implications are for UNISON members.

Cuts

Make no mistake, George Osborne is not about to start investing in public services. Despite the fact the five years of austerity politics has utterly failed to deliver economic recovery he will keep cutting.

The ideological assault on the welfare state is by no means over.

His new scheme of running permanent budget surpluses will give him a license to cut services even when the economy is booming.

Not that our economy is likely to boom with him in 11 Downing Street.

And it isn’t just services that will suffer. The Tory manifesto will commit them to £12 billion of welfare cuts. They didn’t say what they were going to cut, but it is likely the in-work benefits that support our lowest paid members. The benefits that subsidise the employers that pay poverty wages. Disability benefits cuts, driving disabled people out of work and into poverty.

Your Union subs

The Tories are planning a new anti trade union bill. In it they want to ban public sector employers from providing DOCAS (deduction

of contributions at source).This is the system used to take your union subs automatically out of your wages. Also known as “check off” it’s a simple, cheap system that is easy for UNISON, our members and employers.

Their plan is that if DOCAS is shut down you and other members won’t switch to direct debit, you will just let your union membership lapse. They think we will lose income and the union will have trouble operating.

It’s an attempt to completely undermine trade unions.

They will also make it easier for employers to challenge strike ballots in the courts. Membership information from DOCAS is more reliable and it is easier to gather and check and more difficult for employers to challenge.

Of course we will make plans in case we have to switch to direct debit, but we will fight this change and make the case to keep DOCAS. The proposed change is just sheer malice. We pay the employers for the service and our contracts with them for it are legal.

UNISON needs to campaign to expose this as a deliberate ideological attack and fight to keep our DOCAS arrangements.

Your Right to Strike

The Tories want to change the law so there has to be a 50% turnout in strike ballots. In some public services they will also demand that 40% of those eligible to vote must vote in favour for the strike to go ahead.

We are being discriminated against as Trade Unionists being told that we are not fit to make our own rules on ballots.

Clearly this is ridiculous and an attempt to outlaw strike action by the backdoor. The argument has been made many times that the vast majority of MPs would not be elected under these rules.

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR US?When it comes to a parliamentary vote this bill will only need a simple majority of those who turn up. Quorum is just 40 out of 650 MPs.

We will be forced to have a 50% turnout threshold by people who only ask 6% of themselves.

The stench of hypocrisy coming from the Conservative benches is rank and all pervasive.

Add into the mix the legalising of hiring of scab labour during strikes and we are looking at a serious undermining of any action.

The Political Fund

The Tories don’t just not trust you to make your own ballot rules, they also don’t trust you to spend your money as you wish. They want to change the law so you have to opt into a political fund rather than opt out.

You may think what’s the difference? But like with DOCAS it is another cynical move to cut off our funding. This time the money that we spend on political campaigns, like our campaigns against racism, against TTIP, against fracking.

And of course they also believe it will slash funding to the Labour Party and hope union members will stop supporting Labour, while Tories still rake in huge sums from wealthy donors and the hedge funds.

The European Convention on Human Rights

Hard to credit it but they also want to water down your human rights. They are dressing it up as restoring British sovereignty, by having a British Bill of Rights.

But you have to ask yourself: if you could choose anyone to decide your human rights would you pick Michael Gove?

We thought not.

It is no surprise that the Tories want to break from the European Convention on Human

rights. Their new trade union laws must surely breach Article 11 The Freedom of Association.

So obsessed are they with eroding workers rights and protections they are willing to try and abolish a convention written into the various devolution arrangements and even the Good Friday Agreement. Abolishing it could breach them all.

So what next?

We need to remember that despite the recent crowing of the Tories this new Government is a weak Government. At almost any other time a majority of 12 would be deemed as government on a tightrope.

They do not have a mandate. Only 66.1% of people voted and only 36.9% of those who voted went for the Conservatives. If anything it is a sad indictment of our electoral system and the lack of political engagement in our country.

We are also heading for a referendum on Europe. The issue that divides Tories like no other. Splits and infighting will be rife.

But the Tories will not necessarily defeat themselves. We have to do what we always do.

Stick together. Look after each other. Campaign and fight our corner. And fight to win.

We also have to engage in politics ourselves. Vote in the Labour leadership election and vote for candidates that share our values.

We must not give up. They would not attack us if they didn’t fear us. And they are right to fear us. We are the voice of the people. Not them.

If we work together with other unions, civil rights organisations, public, voluntary and social groups and Labour, then we have the numbers and the resources to defeat this weak but destructive government.

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Every June UNISON has it’s national conferences. A chance for activists from across the country to submit motions then get together to debate and set policy for the year ahead.

As always your Branch were in the thick of it, speaking on your behalf. Here are details of a few of the point made.

Evelyn Doyle, Branch Secretary on the new devolution arrangements

We can’t all agree all the time and Evelyn spoke against an amendment from Salford City Branch. Like us they are affected by new devolution arrangements. Their amendment called for a referendum before any changes were made. Understandable in some ways, but the time has passed for that and changes are already happening. We need to be involved in the discussions. Not refusing to talk without a referendum.

Evelyn made our position clear, saying “simple oppositionist approaches will not do anything to promote our members interests” “We need to be in there fighting for our members wherever they work”.

Evelyn acknowledged that we oppose the principle of a directly elected mayor. But we cannot lump that in with all the devolution talks. “Tying that in with the mayor proposals will only confuse matters” she said, pointing out that the mayor referendums saw “a pathetic and derisory level of turnout”.

We want to be at the heart of devolution talks - “to defend our members we have to be part of the devolution process, in there fighting for them and not risking their futures on the back of a referendum, or arguing from the outside”.

Carl Greatbatch, Asst Branch Secretary on UNISON’s political campaign after the 2015 general election.

There was a long, emergency motion with a lot of speakers. Carl used his speech to effectively

argue for some genuine action in defence of our members and service users. He said:

“An early opportunity to directly protest against the government will be the first day of the Tory party conference, to be held in Manchester on Sunday 4th October”. “We need to ensure the union mobilises for a demonstration on that day on a national level.”

Carl said that opposing this government isn’t just about us, that we need to “work with all organisations that share our objectives and trade union values.”

The motion was passed and plans for the demonstration are underway. We’re looking forward to seeing UNISON members from all over the country here in October.

He made it clear that the Tories are not welcome in our city and “any donations of bleach and air freshener to clean up the city after the scum have left would be welcomed by Manchester Branch.”

Nixon Tod, Convenor at Manchester College on The impact of the Adult Education Funding crisis.

Nixon attends conference as part of his role as Chair of the National Further Education and 6th Form Colleges Committee. He gave an impassioned speech before heading down to London to take part in a lobby of parliament on FE funding with our other Manchester College activists.

OUR REPORT FROM NATIONAL AND

Nixon Tod speaking out against FE cuts at Conference

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The funding crisis is real. Nixon said “the size of the cuts is now threatening the very concept of adult, continuing and lifelong learning”.

Nixon made it clear that it is not just about our members, even though “thousands of members’ jobs are at risk”. The truth is that “millions of working class people will lose the opportunity to learn and upskill. This affects the life chances of all those individuals”

Eddy Redmond, Asst Branch Secretary on An Organising Response to the result of the 2015 General Election.

If you’ve met Eddy then you’ll know that he’s not afraid to court a little controversy. And he certainly did that in his speech, opening with “Eddy Redmond, fi rst time speaker as a candidate for general secretary.” Unfortunately a few people in the hall missed him saying “that’s not really true comrades”. Even late that afternoon our delegates were being asked if he was running in the election this year.

But his bit of fun at the start did not detract from the seriousness of the message “the Tories are set on attacking our members and trade unions from the outset…they go for the throat from day one and if Labour get re-elected we need to ensure they return the favour with bells on.”

“We need a massive campaign to expose the Tory ideology, born of hate and contempt for working people and their desire to destroy the

trade union movement”

Of course Eddy also added another dash of controversy before fi nishing, proposing that we merge our union with the PCS (Civil Service Union) “to build a union which represents people in every form of public service”.

Something for future conferences to consider? Maybe, after all as Eddy said, “unity really is strength”.

The ones that got away…

There isn’t time to hear every motion at conference. There were two motions we particularly wanted to get debated, but just couldn’t get them heard in time.

Firstly a motion that called for more of your money to come to branches instead of being held at our national HQ. A good idea given the problems we are all facing at Branch level.

Secondly a motion we submitted on recorded voting. Basically it asked that when our National LG Committee (that make the decisions about your pay) take a vote, a record is made of who voted which way. There have been meetings recently where committee members have abstained on key issues or voted totally against the spirit of our special conference. Members have the right to know how their representatives voted.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONFERENCES

ABS Eddy Redmond sets out a new organising agenda

TUC NATIONAL DEMOAT TORY CONFERENCE

The TUC are organising a national demonstration in Manchester to take place on Sunday 4 October. It will begin with a

march through central Manchester, culminating in a rally close to the Conservative Party

Conference.

More information will follow on our website unisonmanchester.org

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THE LABOUR LEADERSHIP ELECTIONWith Ed Miliband’s resignation Labour is once again looking for a new Leader. Many in the Party wanted a long contest to encourage a debate on policy. But in reality the differences between the policies of most candidates is hard to see.

Decades of obsession with the “centre ground” and trying to court the rightwing press has lead to a situation of endlessly trying to almost mirror the Tories and Liberals on policy to the point of political impotence.

We are just nibbling round the edges of the problem - the fundamental inequality of our country.

We need a change. We need to remember who we are.

With that in mind our Branch Executive Committee have discussed the candidates and voted to recommend you give your support to Corbyn and Watson.

Why Jeremy Corbyn?

Simply put he shares our values. He believes that “Labour must become a social force for progress again”. He believes that Labour should fight injustice and inequality.

He opposes austerity. And rightly so. It is failing to deliver an economic recovery. The other candidates are just shifting cuts to different areas. Robbing different Peters to pay different Pauls.

He is also not ashamed to say he supports trade unions. In recent years it has felt like some senior Labour figures would cross the road to avoid us, never mind sit down and talk.

Some people will doubtless say he is too leftwing. But bland centre ground politics isn’t winning elections anymore. It hasn’t for 10 years.

We believe that Britain is sick of stage managed politics bereft of policies that actually do anyone any good.

We cannot continue with a dogma that has lost us nearly every seat in Scotland and has seen people writing to the Manchester Evening News asking if Scotland goes independent can the north join Scotland!

People are not voting Labour because much of what we are offering nationally appears as conservative.

Jeremy Corbyn can deliver the change we need in our party, our movement and our country.

Why Tom Watson?

Tom is a seasoned campaigner. And that’s what the Deputy Leader should be. He wants to take the huge numbers of volunteers we have and give them a new direction.

We have an army of people knocking on doors. But that must be about more than gathering data.

We need to win more voters over on the doorstep.

With 33 years in the party he has respect across the movement as a conviction politician. He was at the forefront of challenging Rupert Murdoch over phone hacking, and in exposing child abuse cover-ups amongst the powerful.Jeremy Corbyn supports Council workers fighting privatisation

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JEREMY CORBYN MP FOR LABOUR LEADER

TOM WATSON MP FOR DEPUTY LEADER

IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE

Families and friends not in UNISON can register directly with the Labour Party as a ‘supporter’ for £3 and get a vote in this election.

You can complete the form online by going to http://labour.org.uk/support.

To ensure you don’t lose your right to have a say in choosing Labour’s new leader you must be registered to vote by 12th August.

How to vote?

There are a number of ways you can register to vote in the upcoming Labour leadership election.

UNISON Affi liated Political Fund (APF) Levy Payers are eligible to vote in this electon ONLY if they are registered with the Labour Party.

You can register for FREE by :-

• Replying to the email sent to you from UNISON National Offi ce

• Filling in a card at the Branch Offi ce if you do not have an email address

• Go online to http://www.unison.org.uk/news/have-your-say-in-the-labour-leadership-election

If you are not in the APF you can transfer to UNISON Labour Link at no extra cost.

HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED

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AN UPDATE ON ‘DEVO MANC’For a number of years there have been gradual steps towards devolution of Public Services in England however the pace of change has increased dramatically since the Scottish Referendum with greater powers to be devolved next year.

A Combined Authority was agreed by all ten Greater Manchester Councils, the GMCA, in 2011 and started to take greater responsibilities on a city region basis.

The approach was one of Public Service Reform, looking at ways in which all public services could consider how best to co-operate to use public assets (finance budgets, staffing, buildings and assets) in a more cohesive effective way to get the best outcomes for the public of Greater Manchester.

Initial work areas trialled included better intervention in early years work and reducing the scale of troubled families by staff in related services working differently and more effectively on a joint basis to improve outcomes for people.

This is the right way to go in the future regardless of whether public service budgets increase, are static or are cut.

Clearly much more success could be achieved in a period of growth rather than the destructive cuts we have endured in the last five years with further attacks to come. Nevertheless the move towards devolution with decisions taken by elected Council’s is a positive one in relation to the decades ahead.

In the Devo Manc agreement of November 2014 greater powers were agreed by Government with the GMCA including transport, planning, housing, health and social care, skills and business support, early years, policing and justice.

The proposals included the direct election of a Mayor in 2017 with lead Executive powers in some services. UNISON is opposed to directly elected Mayors in general as with sweeping powers they can completely undermine elected Council’s. However the GMCA has agreed to scrap the Mayor’s proposed executive powers

and in June elected Tony Lloyd as interim Mayor.UNISON has worked with him well in the past both as the MP for Manchester Central and as GM Police Commissioner.

In February 2015 came the Health and Social Care Memorandum agreed by the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA), Health employers and providers and NHS England.

This agreed an interim Health and Social Care Partnership Board to carry out the work needed to ensure the whole £6 billion health and social care budget and related decisions are transferred to the city region in April 2016.

Of the total £4.5 billion is already decided locally but the city region will now take responsibility for the £1.5 billion previously held by NHS England. As a whole the move towards devolution provides both threats and opportunities for our members and services.

Threats include possible future moves to parcel up services to commission with an aim of transferring them to the private sector, bringing in sub regional pay, breaking national agreements and levelling down wages and terms and conditions where they differ in related services.

It has to be said there is no evidence of any of these intentions but obviously UNISON must be ever vigilant on our members behalf to ensure these threats do not raise their heads in the future.

Opportunities are services working much better together and improvements in linking up between related agencies to deliver the best possible outcomes for the public even in the teeth of continued national cuts.

The level of future opportunities when there is fair funding for public services are potentially immense.

UNISON will seek to ensure that our members interests and valuing the contribution they make in providing services to the public is at the heart of developments and changes to come in the future.

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Name: Kay Seddon

Job: Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

How long have you been a member of the union?I have been a member for 15 years

What do you like about your role in UNISON? I like being able to help colleagues / acting as a voice for them, helping to overcome issues with them.

Whereabouts do you live? Where would you want to live? I live in Moston, Manchester. I would love to live in Inverness

Best thing about UNISON? Knowing that they support teaching assistants and are giving us a voice in local government.

Who or what is your inspiration?My aunt was my inspiration in life, she showed me family loyalty and the need to support each other, and to work hard for what you want. Nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? What is the trait you most deplore in others? The trait I most deplore in myself is that I speak without thinking, often saying something that should only have been thought! Traits I deplore in others is rudeness, good manners cost nothing.

If you were Prime Minister, what would you do first?Give teaching assistants a pay rise and make ministers live on a minimum wage!

What superpower would you like?The superpower I would like would be ‘the ability to turn invisible’

What’s the worst job you’ve ever done? What’s your ideal job?I have had a variety of jobs , all of which I

have loved. However I did have one where rather than the actual job it would be the place that was worst but I couldn’t possibly name and shame even though I’d love to! My ideal job is my current job, HLTA in my local primary school.

Favourite holiday destination, film, drink, football club?Favourite holiday destination is the highlands of Scotland (never been able to afford going abroad during school hols) Favourite film is The Bodygaurd (I love Kevin Costner) favourite drink woo woo, favourite football club has to be MUFC (No one’s perfect, Ed.)

What was your best day at work, and your worst?Best day at work was hearing I’d been offered a new job in a different school.Worst day in school was being attacked by a child with behaviour problems and not feeling supported by managment.

Why do unions matter?They speak up for us, giving us a voice in situations where we may feel intimidated, also supporting us to get better working conditions and wages.

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