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  • Re: Strike stories

    In Kensington and Chelsea we had a brilliant two days. We are a relatively small UNISON branch that has been poorly organised for years but which is growing and getting organised with gathering momentum. I think this dispute will be remembered as a turning point for us, we have been inundated with application...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Robert Lugg on 07-18-2008

  • Re: strike

    Did anyone go out on strike this week? What was the atmosphere like?
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Anabel Unity on 07-17-2008

  • Striking Decisions

    UNISON have called a strike of local government employees for the 16th and 17th July. I’m a member of UNISON. So I strike. It should all be so simple. In reality I am in two minds and I haven’t decided - or rather, our team haven’t made a united decision yet. In the whole team, there...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008

  • Re: Strike on cards for July

    More news: Unison has confirmed that the walkout will definitely go ahead on the 16th and 17th of July (this needed to be rubber stamped by the industrial action committee). So we are go! Also, my colleagues Daniel Lombard and Adam McCulloch have some interesting things to say on the case for strike...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 06-27-2008

  • Re: Strike on cards for July

    It looks like Unison is going to go ahead with a strike. Members backed a walkout by 55% to 45% - interestingly a similar majority to last year when the idea was rejected by the leadership - and negotiators have now tabled a two-day strike for July 16 and 17. This now has to be ratified by the union's...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 06-24-2008

  • Re: Social workers set out their pay demands

    We've discussed this before but I just thought I'd throw this out again - what do people think about the links between pay and conditions and good practice (which forms part of BASW's case for forging closer links with a trade union )? That fighting for better pay - up to and including through...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 05-22-2008

  • Re: Social workers set out their pay demands

    This has been a really good debate. Just to throw something into the fire it looks like Unison members are going to be balloted on strike action . Which way are people going to go?
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 05-20-2008

  • Re: Social workers set out their pay demands

    This is a really interesting issue. There are clear ethical issues about strike action in terms of its impact on service users, and in a sense it must go against your professional values. Do people think the ethically right thing to do for a social worker who is a member of a union to cross a picket...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 04-16-2008

  • Re: Social workers set out their pay demands

    Looks like the employers have come back with an improved offer - but a barely improved one, at 2.45% . Needless to say the unions have rejected it and strike action is now looking all the more likely.
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 04-03-2008

  • Re: Social workers set out their pay demands

    It looks like council employers have offered staff across England, Wales and Northern Ireland a 2.2% pay rise for 2008-9, which unsurprisingly unions have rejected as an insult. Inflation at the latest count was 4.1% on the widest measure - the retail price index - while the government's consumer...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 03-19-2008
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