- Conference
- 2019 Police & Justice Service Group Conference
- Date
- 23 May 2019
- Decision
- Carried
Effective organisation. Effective representation and effective negotiation can only take place when we have effective trade union facility time agreements.
We have again seen the Private Sector Probation Services put the National Probation Service (NPS) to shame, with their facility time agreements and their negotiating structures.
The NPS are fettered by Cabinet Office Guidelines on facility time. The overall cost of facility time cannot exceed 0.01% of overall budget. This equates to roughly 10 people half time across the whole of England and Wales.
The NPS is the only sector in UNISON fettered with this Cabinet Office diktat.
Recruitment and organisation is an expectation of our trade union, it is an absolute requirement if we are to be organised in the workplace.
When Offender management is moved into the NPS all the hard work in the Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) will be lost. The ability to organise will be gone.
The ability to train new stewards and build in any form of progression will be gone.
DOCAS will be gone.
Conference calls upon the Service Group Executive (SGE) to work with the relevant bodies to seek to campaign against the Cabinet Office diktat.
Conference calls upon the SGE to work with the relevant bodies to seek to negotiate effective Trade Union Facility Time Agreements.