Branch Secretary News – February 2024 Bargaining Support

How can UNISON’s Bargaining Support team help you?

  • Bargaining Support offers a huge range of comprehensive bargaining guides and model documents, covering every dimension of members’ terms and conditions
  • The guides run from core issues, such as pay, hours, leave and sickness absence, to more specialist areas such as vehicle allowances or hot desking
  • The model documents provide “off-the shelf” agreements, surveys and letters, that can be adapted to local bargaining priorities
  • Though regional organising staff are the first port of call on specifically local bargaining issues, Bargaining Support can be contacted for further assistance on the wider issues covered by the guides
  • We can offer particular support for pay claims that lie outside of national negotiations, through analysis of accounts
  • And we can often provide national or sectoral benchmarks on many more areas that commonly lie at the heart of local negotiations
  • To contact Bargaining Support on any of these issues, email bsg@unison.co.uk