Sunday 8 January 2017

BRANCH NOMINATIONS 2017



The nomination process for becoming a UNISON Branch Committee Member is now open!!
If you are willing to put yourself forward for a post, please return the nomination form to the UNISON office by 20th January 2017.

If you are unsure if a post is for you, please contact office@oxfordcityunison.com or 01865 252672 and we will chat through what each post entails, alternatively, there are brief details on what each post involves in the attached job description document. For all posts full training and support is provided.

Time to have your say

Have your say on new pay

Dear Comrades.

You may have noticed in the latest council matters 255, that we at UNISION have, in partnership with Oxford City Council developed a questionnaire to help us understand what you would like to get from these Pay negotiations, the questionnaire is now online at www.oxford.gov.uk/paydeal2018. And we would like to encourage all our members to complete it, so we can work at getting the best possible deal for you.


For colleagues at Direct Services without access to a computer, printed copies are available from your steward. We would be grateful if you could complete and return to your steward or to HR, 1st Floor St Aldates Chambers by 13 January 2017.

In Solidarity



Wednesday 2 November 2016

New living wage set

UNISON has welcomed the new living wage rates, announced simultaneously in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Manchester this morning.
They new rates are:
  • £8.45 an hour for the UK outside London;
  • £9.75 an hour within London, to take account of the higher cost of living there.
These rates are based on the minimum income standard for the UK – how much someone needs to earn for a basic but decent life.
They differ from the government’s so-called ‘national living wage’, which is a rebranded minimum wage for over 25s.
The announcements came at the start of Living Wage Week, “a time each year to talk about making work pay, while remembering that millions of people in our country still work for poverty wages,” as general secretary Dave Prentis noted.
He welcomed today’s announcement of new rates as “an independent and verifiable level of pay which meets the most basic needs – quite literally, a wage upon which someone can be reasonably expected to live – and then campaigning for employers to pay it.
“UNISON has been proud to support and campaign for the living wage from the outset,” he said.
“And the living wage has become an integral part of our own campaigning, whether in the social care sector or the water industry.”

Friday 22 July 2016

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Essential cover if you work in public services

With cuts, redundancies, restructuring and outsourcing, now is the time to join UNISON.
Call free on 0800 171 2194
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We're the UK's largest public service union, with over 1.3 million members. Join today and you'll receive our support – with membership costing less than you might think. Before you get to work, get essential cover.

Monday 30 May 2016

The 2016 School uniform grants now available

School uniform grants

Families on low incomes can struggle to make ends meet, especially just before the start of the new school year. UNISON’s scheme helps members on low incomes deal with the cost of school uniforms.
The 2016 school uniform grant is now available. You can find an application form in the Resources section below – please ensure that UNISON has received this by July 15.










2024 Annual General Meeting

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