YCB staff who rejected Unison's call to strike this week are continuing to support customers across YCB's six schemes on the third day of strike action. As last week, specialist services Flower Lane and Rosa Morison are forced to close, but again some of their customers are being supported from Valley Way respite service. Customers [...]
1 Background to pay cut dispute Adult Social Care budgets across the country are facing significant challenge. In April 2013 The Local Government Association published a report entitled Adult social care spending round submission. In this report they showed that Councils have had to reduce their adult social care budgets by 20% over three years. [...]
Your Choice Barnet (YCB) would like to correct some inaccuracies and clarify some misunderstandings regarding YCB which arose at the public Question Time session at Friern Barnet Library on 20 June, as follows: Concern was raised that some of the services are being closed, in particular CommunitySpace on a Friday, this is not the case, [...]
As a result of talks at ACAS on Friday 13 June, the following agreement has been reached: Your Choice Barnet has agreed to make a one-off payment in the July pay run to the equivalent of reinstating the 9.5% reduction for that month only to affected staff. Talks will continue between UNISON and YCB with [...]
Whilst empathising with UNISON, we are disappointed that after three constructive meetings to date the union has decided to issue a strike notice letter announcing the first day of industrial action on Wednesday 18 June. We are continuing our discussions with UNISON with a further meeting on Friday 13 June in an attempt to minimise [...]
Recommendations: Proposed reductions to staff salaries should be rejected Barnet Homes should either waive the outstanding amount from the £1 million loaned to YCB last year or extend the payment period to 10 years Barnet Council should be re-approached to re-establish payment in advance for a percentage of the services to mitigate the effect of [...]
Barnet UNISON response and recommendations - overall position: "UNISON is opposed to the proposed 9.5% cut to staff salaries from 1st April 2014" Specifically: 1 UNISON reiterates its recommendations from May 2013. YCB response: These recommendations are not relevant to this current consultation and were comprehensively responded to last year. 2 In addition UNISON now recommends: Review [...]