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Essential Car User Proposal Update – No 2. (2 May 2013)

It has been brought to UNISON’s attention that the proposals for changes to Essential Car User Allowance provided by the Authority and which have deemed as Management’s final offer are infact incorrect.  The figures that Management have used to indicate existing levels of payment grossly under estimate the losses that users would suffer.

Additionally, it has not been made clear that should an existing user choose to accept the option to phase in the loss over a two year period then from year three they would no longer be an essential user and only be eligible for Casual User allowance at the HMRC rate of 45p per mile.

Members will draw their own conclusions as to why incorrect figures have been used.
Following the challenge from UNISON management have now provided the revised figures showing ECU as £1239.00 instead of £1170.00.

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UNISON's key negotiating committee for local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet in early May to consider the union's response to the latest pay offer from employers. 

The meeting of the union's local government service group NJC committee on 7 May to discuss the employers' final offer and agree recommendation for the branch consultation which will start as soon as possible after 7 May. 

The joint unions will meet in the afternoon of 7 May.

UNISON members had rejected previous options - for a 1% pay rise with changes to terms and condition or a lower increase with no strings - put forward by the local government employers.

Now councils have come back with a final offer of:

• 1% on all pay points from 1 April 2013;
• deleting the bottom pay point (scale point 4) from 1 October 2013.

There are around 28,000 local government workers - mainly women working part-time - on the bottom pay point. 

Under the offer, they would get a 1% pay rise between April and 30 September and a further 1.4% increase on 1 October. Overall they would move from £6.30 an hour to £6.45 - a 2.4% increase.

Commenting on the new offer, UNISON head of local government Heather Wakefield said: "Local government workers have seen a 16% decline in the value of their pay in the last three years, coupled with significant local attacks on terms and conditions. 

"UNISON's local government committee will be mindful of this when we consider this improved offer. 

"We held out for a better deal and will now be consulting our local government members, the majority of whom are women who have been particularly hard hit by the coalition's cuts to jobs, services, pay and conditions."

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You can find the minutes of the AGM held on 20th March 2013 here...

 

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