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CALLING ALL COMMUNICATIONS ACTIVISTS – an important date for your diary

Our next communications activists’ event is taking place on Wednesday, 24 November, from 1-2pm.

UNISON Scotland’s Communications and Campaigns Committee holds activist communications meetings twice a year.  These events are open to all branch activists with an interest in communications/campaigns and offer the chance to come together and share good practices, learn from each other and discuss communications/campaigning in UNISON.

At this event, we will be taking a closer look at our recent successful health campaign and we will be hearing from Tam Hiddleston, chair of our health campaign group.  The focus will be on campaigning so this event will be of interest to all communications activists, not just those in health.  This is a virtual event and will take place on Teams. 

If you are interested in attending this meeting please reply to Rosaleen Rodgers at r.rodgers@unison.co.uk and we will email you a link for the meeting. 

We look forward to seeing you there.

TRISHA and DANNY

Communications Officers

The seventh edition of UNISON Scotland’s Care Futures

Care Futures no 7 is published here on the website. Focussing as it does on the results of the recent UNISON Scotland survey of care workers about the extent and impact of staff shortages, it makes for grim reading. As well as that it mentions the suggestions UNISON are making as short term measures to address the crisis.  

A copy is here https://unison-scotland.org/care-futures-7-the-staff-shortages-survey/

LG Pay 2021

The UNISON new consultative ballot on the revised LG pay offer is now live and if you haven’t had your e-mail with the ballot link yet it should be hitting your mailbox shortly (the system sends them out in batches so they will not all arrive at the same time. Please always check your junk mail as it may have gone directly into this.). If you do not receive your digital ballot by Friday 12th November please contact Lorraine Thompson at thomsonl34s@stirling.gov.uk or call 0800 0857 857.

We have attached an SLG Pay Ballot FAQ document regarding the offer for your immediate attention. We will send out further comms as we receive them.

The ballot will run until midday on the 29th of November and new members will need to join by 22nd November to be included in the ballot.

SOLACE Response to the National Care Service Consultation

For your information/interest – SOLACE’s response to the national care service consultation is here:  https://solace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Solace-National-Care.pdf

Covid

The latest findings in modelling the COVID-19 epidemic in Scotland, both in terms of the spread of the disease through the population (epidemiological modelling) and of the demands it will place on the system, for example in terms of health care requirements, are here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-state-epidemic-05-november-2021/

November and December online training courses

If you are interested in attending any of these courses please arrange for the attached booking form to be completed and then forward it to activisteducationscotland@unison.co.uk as soon as possible. 

Please note that all of the courses are subject to numbers:

  • Online ERA Refresher (24 & 25 November – 9.30 am to 1.00 pm each day)
  • Online Organising for Health & Safety (2, 3, 9, 10 December – 9.30 am to 1.00 pm each day)
  • Online ERA Refresher (13 & 14 December – 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm each day)

Please note that December’s Organising Stewards course is full but we hope to advertise some online courses for January to April 2022 very soon.

Training booking form
Training calendar-july-dec

Join the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice

UNISON is mobilising for the day of action, organised by the COP26 Coalition, on Saturday 6 November, when civil society and trade unions will assemble in cities and towns all over the UK.

Look out for UNISON and TUC regional information about the day. You can also find out where your nearest assembly point is at the COP26 Coalition website.

If you can’t join the Day of Action in person, then watch it live on YouTube from noon on the 6 November.

Join the COP26 Peoples Summit debates 

As world leaders meet to discuss our planet’s future, the COP26 Coalition will host The People’s Summit for Climate Justice, from 7-10 November. There will be daily debates, events and webinars – both in-person and online.

At the end of every day, there will also be a live stream commenting on what decisions were made at the COP26 conference.

You can sign up for virtual events here:

Be part of Green UNISON

  • Use hashtags #GreenUnison and #COP26 in Twitter and Facebook events, photographs and solidarity messages from your branch or as an individual;
  • Use UNISON’s Greening of Public services logo in your green work;
  • Join the Green UNISON network to keep up to date with UNISON Green news, events and resources to help with your branch green activities.

for all information see the UNISON Scotalnd Website