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News Preparations Are Well In Hand To Prepare For The Industrial Action Ballot (06/08/08) UNISON is already busy preparing to run an industrial action ballot in early September. Members will be asked to support a series of one day strikes to begin in early October. A strike committee composed of key national reps from both BGE and BGS has been set up and is meeting at least weekly to plan the campaign. The priority at this stage is to ensure that our membership records are accurate and up to date. Branches will be working hard with their Regional Office colleagues over the next few weeks to cleanse the data to get ready for the ballot. If you have moved or changed job in the last few years then it would be worth drawing this to the attention of your local rep. Currently the strike committee is considering what categories of member should be balloted. Branches will be informed of the decisions in time to prepare for the ballot. In the meantime if members have any questions, views or concerns about the industrial action ballot then get in touch with your local rep IF YOU'RE NOT ALREADY A MEMBER OF UNISON OR ANOTHER TRADE UNION THEN JOIN UP TODAY. PLEASE SPEAK TO YOUR LOCAL UNISON WORKPLACE REPRESENTATIVE. HELP US BECOME EVEN STRONGER!!! For your copy of the article, please click here Industrial Action Ballot - Vote YES (30/07/08) Ballot papers will be issued to members' registered home address from Thursday, 4th September 2008 and will close on Friday, 26th September 2008. The ballot will be conducted independently by the Electoral Reform Society and your Branch representatives will be holding a series of meetings to discuss the issues with members. Please contact UNISON Direct on 0845 355 0845 to ensure all your details are up to date. An industrial action section has been put together on the Branch website and contains a series of frequently asked questions. This will be updated regularly. More... UNISON decides to ballot members for industrial action
(08/07/08)
The recent consultative ballot of members on the pensions issue produced a clear majority of members against the company's plans for pensions and in favour of an industrial action ballot. This result was considered by UNISON's National British Gas Sector Committee on 25th June. During the debate it became clear that the pension's issue was not the only one that members locally were aggrieved about. Among the other issues were off-shoring, the transition of P4 staff to new L7 team leader posts and the potential loss of income faced by BGE CSA members as a result of the introduction of a new pay system.
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CONSULTATIVE BALLOT - British Gas pension schemes proposed changes (04/06/08) Message from Steve Bloomfield - National Officer for British Gas/Centrica staff: I know that your branch and your members employed by British Gas and /or
Centrica are aware of the proposals by management to make some significant
changes to the company’s existing pension provisions. Recent bulletins published
nationally have sought to keep members informed of developments.
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Updated: Many thanks to all members who took part. The results of the consultative ballot is: Question 1: YES votes: 0% - NO votes: 100% Question 2: YES votes: 87.5% - NO votes: 8.75% Other: 0.625% - YES to industrial action but not strike action Invalid/Not Accepted: 3.125% - either because the forms were not correctly completed or are not members.
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