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New and helpful local government finance training resources available

Throughout the year we have made available a series of training courses, run by the Local Government Information Unit, to help local government activists understand how local government finance works and crucially to provide them with guidance on how best they can influence the budgetary process to help protect jobs and council services. Given the extremely challenging financial outlook for all local councils it has never been more important for trade unionists to have a firm understanding of how local government finance works.
The courses for activists in England have now finished for the year but if you are in Wales or Scotland then you can still register for the upcoming training courses here: https://lgiu.org/localgovernment-finance-training-for-unison-stewards/

Session One

Session one of the training for activists in Scotland takes place online on 9th September

Session two

Session two in Scotland taking place on 30th September.

Session one of the training for activists in Cymru/Wales takes place online on 6th October with session two taking place on 29th October.

For those people who have not been able to attend any of these online training courses we are pleased to present a series of very helpful online videos which help promote understanding of how local government finance works which can be accessed here: https://lgiu.org/bite-size-learning-local-government-finance-training-for-unison-stewards/
UNISON members who haven’t registered on the LGIU website before will be prompted to sign up here https://lgiu.org/membership/ and then they will be able to access the videos via the webpage
above.

LG Pay Update – Revised Offer

You will see that the only change is to add £50 to the flat rate proposed for those earning below £25k per annum. The rest of the offer remains unchanged.

COSLA tabled a revised offer at last week’s meeting of the SJC Steering Group – this is at the bottom of the page for your information. You will see that the only change is to add £50 to the flat rate proposed for those earning below £25k per annum. The rest of the offer remains unchanged.

Local Government Committee decision

Your Local Government Committee met last Thursday to consider the revised offer and considered that this was not a significant improvement to the offer that would necessitate a further member consultation. On this basis the Committee took the unanimous decision to proceed with industrial action plans.

Letter to COSLA

UNISON have written to COSLA outlining the LG Committee’s decision.

SJC Revised letter of offer

Wildfires are burning on the island of Evia – BBC

Hundreds of firefighters have been battling huge blazes that have forced thousands of people to flee their homes and destroyed dozens of properties.

Fuelled by strong winds and Greece’s worst heatwave in decades, over 580 fires have broken out across the country since late July.

The biggest is on Evia, where 650 firefighters are still struggling to control the blaze.

“The fire was our destiny, no one could have put it out,” Vangelis Katsaros, who lost his entire farm to the blaze, told the BBC. Read more at the BBC